Re: Patch for a pkg update command

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 13.07.2011, at 02:45, Rik wrote:

> 
>> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:06:05 +0200
>> From: Lukas Reichlin <address@hidden>
>> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Patch for a pkg update command 
>> 
>> Dear Octave community
>> 
>> I've just extended the "pkg" command by an "update" option.  It checks 
>> against OctaveForge whether any installed packages are outdated and updates 
>> them if necessary.  If this feature is of any interest, I could work on a 
>> more elaborated version (print a version table similar to "pkg list", "pkg 
>> list -outdated", ...)
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Lukas
> 
> 7/12/11
> 
> Lukas,
> 
> Could you also make a small patch for the Texinfo help documentation?  This
> seems like a reasonable feature and I see that you have committed it to the
> Mercurial repository, but no one besides a few people watching the
> maintainers list know about it.  If no one knows about it, it won't get used.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rik

Hi Rik

I've created a small patch:

--- pkg_v1.m    2011-07-07 16:45:34.000000000 +0200
+++ pkg_v2.m    2011-07-13 11:53:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -237,6 +237,14 @@
 ## installation will be produced and the binary packages will be found.
 ## The options @option{-verbose} and @option{-nodeps} are respected, while
 ## the other options are ignored.
+##
+## @item update
+## Check against Octave-Forge repository whether any installed packages 
+## are outdated and update them if necessary.  Usage:
+##
+## @example
+## pkg update
+## @end example
 ## @end table
 ## @end deftypefn
 



Best regards
Lukas

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