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Rafael, |
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your replies are emotional and filled with bitterness. Please adhere to |
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the standards of friendly technical discussion that we are used to on |
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this mailing list. |
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Thanks, |
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Thomas |
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On 12:36 Sun 18 Sep 2011, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: |
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> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Juan Aguado <juantxorena@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Do you know how much "members" the "gentoo octave" project have? |
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> > My guess is that theres is only one or none. |
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> > |
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> >> Each sentence you write make this more obvious. |
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> > Whatever you say. |
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> > |
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> >> 1) You DON'T need to use Github to update the package database. |
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> >> There's a big and shiny warning on this section of the docs saying |
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> >> that end-users don't need to read. Just do it if you want to help |
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> >> other users. Use the --scm option of g-octave, and package.keywords to |
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> >> unmask the scm packages you want to install. |
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> >> 2) You DON'T need to use --sync at all, g-octave can install packages |
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> >> from octave-forge SVN repository with the damn --scm option. |
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> > I don't want to install the svn packages from octave-forge repository. I want to install the lastest stable packages from octave-forge. Which is something I cannot do unless I follow some instructions in the docs that, as an end user, I'm not supposed to read. |
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> > |
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> >> 3) stable releases of g-octave comes with a package database, that is |
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> >> installed by 'emerge --config'. We do this for security reasons. The |
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> >> live version obviously don't comes with a package database, then you |
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> >> need the '--sync' option to get one from github. |
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> > So I can't use the lastest stable versions of octave-packages unless I use the unstable and masked software and somebody manually mantains an external database. I can't see how this is easier for the end user. |
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> > |
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> > Thanks for your time, but I think is easier, faster and better for me if I mantain my own ebuild-based repo. |
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> Oh, then you think it's easier to create a ebuild-based repo from |
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> scratch than run 2 scripts that automatically update the package |
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> database, and send me a pull request? |
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> Awesome! Then go ahead please. |
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> -- |
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> Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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> Gentoo Linux developer |
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> http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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Thomas Kahle |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ |
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