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On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Juan Aguado <juantxorena@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I wrote a blog post about this topic, to avoid being repetitive. |
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>> http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/post/g-octave-past-present-and-future/ |
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>> TL;DR: Please read the documentation. |
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> First of all, sorry if I've offended somebody. That wasn't my intention. My intention was only to show the current state of octave in gentoo. |
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Do you know how much "members" the "gentoo octave" project have? |
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> However, I also find annoying that people assumes that I haven't read the documentation or made an effort to fix the problems. |
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Each sentence you write make this more obvious. |
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> Anyway, I find more time-consuming to log in in a github account to propose some changes and wait them to be approved than to update an ebuild of fill a bug. Not to mention thta when I try to update de g-octave database, I get this message: '"--sync" not available, please install g-octave-9999 if you want this.', and I'm forced to install a masked version of a package that, as the docs says, is not recommended to use. Not to mention that I also have real life problems and I don't have time to mess with this things. |
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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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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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That's it |
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Regards, |
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Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |