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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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>> Each sentence you write make this more obvious. |
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> Whatever you say. |
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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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>> 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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> 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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Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |