From: Quentin S. <qsp...@ie...> - 2003-02-22 16:20:38
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Hello All, For those who run Octave on RPM-based Linux distributions (RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc), I have successfully created a .spec file to build an RPM package of Octave-Forge. I build octave and octave-forge from CVS regularly, and I'm curious whether there is interest in my providing these builds in RPM form (it would be based on RedHat 8.0). This could either be on the Sourceforge site, or I could put a link to my own page on the new Octave Wiki, for example. Also, before I make my packages available for everyone, I have a question. When octave is installed, the file /usr/share/octave/ls-R is created. As far as I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong) this is for the benefit of the kpathsearch library (for faster searches?), but octave is still capable of finding files in /usr/share/octave even if they are not included in ls-R. What is the benefit of this file, and should my install scripts for octave-forge update it? Quentin Spencer |