Re: [gentoo-soc] project: octave-forge repository for paludis

[Sebastien Fabbro]

Alex Tsui wrote:
> There is a set of octave-forge-* ebuilds in the science overlay can be
> consolidated and managed by the paludis package manager. Paludis works
> internally with repositories, so I want to implement an octave-forge
> repository that will sync and un/install octave-forge packages. All of
> octave-forge's packages are organized into four repositories,
> basically folders. Also, dependency information is included in each
> octave-forge package in a standard description file. This is
> everything needed to write a syncer in paludis, and then we can take
> advantage of paludis to do dependency resolution based on the
> descriptions, saving a whole tree of ebuilds to maintain.
>
> Most octave-forge packages depend on themselves or other octave-forge
> packages, but some call for external packages. I haven't used paludis
> yet, but I guess since it can be configured to do the work of portage,
> portage is just another repository under paludis and so this type of
> dependency can also be resolved, too.
>

paludis seems to have a codebase that should allow to implement a lot of 
these g-* projects, so why not. For octave I don't think there is an 
easy repository to sync as you might do with portage or R. You might 
have to make a way to create a special sync from the web page or 
maintain a local index/database. Also as you noted there are packages 
with external deps. There aren't that many for now, so either make them 
as standard ebuilds, or find a way for packages to talk cross repositories.

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Sébastien