Re: pkg.m and binary files

[Michael Goffioul]

"pkg prefix" can have 2 arguments: the first one is for the location of the
arch-independent files, the second one is for the location of the
arch-dependent files. It seems you only set the arch-independent location.
See "help pkg".

Michael.


On 12/13/07, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
>
> When trying to package some octave-forge packages for debian I ran
> into trouble with the binary files and the placement of them.
>
> When as normal user I try to make a debian package of an octave-forge
> package then it works fine but as root it does not.
>
> This is because when we make a debian package we recreate the
> root directory structure of the system under a directory where the
> package is being built and then the "octave --eval pkg install"
> misplaces the binaries.
>
> Lets take an example:
>
> I am packaging octcdf and am doing it in the directory
> ~/octave-forge/octcdf
>
> then I create the directory debian inside that so it becomes
> ~/octave-forge/octcdf/debian
> and in that I place some control files that dictate how the packaging
> is supposed to be done. Then I call dpkg-buildpackage and that creates
> a directory inside ~/octave-forge/octcdf/debian that is called by the
> name of the package, in this case lets call it octave-octcdf and under
> that directory the dpkg-buildpackage places the usr/share/octave
> directory and everything that I tell it to put there through a file
> called rules placed in ~/octave-forge/octcdf/debian.
>
> Now in this rules files I call octave to build my octcdf-1.0.6.tar.gz
> by using
>
> octave -H -q --no-site-file --eval \
> "pkg('prefix',[pwd(),'/debian/octave-octcdf/usr/share/octave/packages']); \
>  pkg('local_list',[pwd(),'.']); \
>  pkg('global_list',[pwd(),'.']); \
>  pkg install octcdf-1.0.6.tar.gz"
>
> and this installes everything (including the binaries) into
> /debian/octave-octcdf/usr/share/octave/packages/octcdf-1.0.6/
>
> but if I do this as root then the binaries are not installed there but
> into /usr/lib/octave/packages/octcdf-1.0.6/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v29
> which is not what I want. I want it to go into
> ~/octave-forge/octcdf/debian/octave-octcdf/usr/lib/octave/packages/octcdf-1.0.6/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v29
> insted.
>
> So when I call octave with pkg install, is it possible to tell it
> where to put the binaries?
>
> I really dont want to have to go into each and every tarball from the
> forge and change the makefiles :-)
>
> Best regards
>
> Oli
>