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Re: Changing package file extension
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Changing package file extension |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:27:55 -0500 |
On 29-Jan-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| tor, 29 01 2009 kl. 14:05 -0600, skrev Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
| > 2009/1/29 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
| > > If the extension is not explicitly used in pkg.m, then I guess it is
| > > just a matter of documentation and changing the names of the Octave
| > > Forge packages.
| >
| > Is this really all that has to be done? It feels kinda silly to submit
| > a diff for something like this. I guess the real change has to be in
| > the 'Forge website.
|
| But does it actually work? Have you tried actually installing a package
| that has extension .octpkg ? I'd fear that some of the routines for
| uncompressing files might need changing.
I don't think that tar or gzip should care what the extension is, so
both
tar zxf foo.octpkg
or
gunzip -c - | tar xf -
should both work. But yeah, have you tested it?
jwe
- Re: Changing package file extension, (continued)
- Re: Changing package file extension, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2009/01/23
- Re: Changing package file extension, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/27
- Re: Changing package file extension, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, Søren Hauberg, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, David Bateman, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, Søren Hauberg, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension,
John W. Eaton <=
- Re: Changing package file extension, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, Søren Hauberg, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2009/01/29
- Re: Changing package file extension, Søren Hauberg, 2009/01/30