[OctDev] main ported to the package system

[H. <so...@ha...>]

Hi,
  Since nobody had any problems with me moving octave-forge to the
package system, I've started that process. Currently 'main' is ported in
CVS.
  It works on my system, but that's not really a great test. So it would
be great if some of you guys could help me test it. So if you want to
help, please check out pkg from octave cvs, and check out octave-forge
from cvs. Then run './release.sh' in the 'main' directory in
octave-forge.
  This will generate a bunch of .tar.gz files that can be installed from
octave with the command
  pkg("install", "package_name.tar.gz")

  The file called octave-forge-main-<date>.tar.gz is a bundle of all the
packages, but it can't be installed without a patch to pkg that you can
find on the octave-bug list.

  I can't install the packages called "parallel", "comm", "fixed", and
"linear-algebra" due to a problem in ./configure. However, that problem
has been hunting me since before the move to the package system, so my
problems shouldn't be related to the package system.

  If you guys don't have any problems with the packages, I'll move
"nonfree" (and "extra"?) to the package system. The next step is then to
clean up the individual packages, so we can get rid of all the #ifdef's
(right?)

  Sorry about the long mail,
S=C3=B8ren