Re: [OctDev] RPM Version of Octave Forge

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

Quentin Spencer wrote:

> 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. 

You are welcome to put the rpm spec files and build
scripts in octave-forge (e.g., in admin/rpm), and you
can distribute the rpms from there as well.  We will
eventually be doing this with cygwin.

> 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? 

Please forward this question to John, or look on the tex lists.

- Paul