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Re: Changes to package installer to handle rpm builds
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David Bateman |
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Re: Changes to package installer to handle rpm builds |
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Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:37:14 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060921) |
Orion Poplawski wrote:
> This will take a fair bit of work, but I think we need a way to pass the
> installer a directory containing a built package and have it install
> that without running configure/make.
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Orion,
This is essentially what the "package" target in the octave-forge
packages Makefile does. It makes a binary package that can be installed
correctly without rerunning configure or make. Why does this
functionality need to be migrated to the Octave pkg command itself?
Regards
David