how to make "pkg load" automatically load dependencies

[Qianqian Fang]

Dear list,

I am packaging a few octave toolboxes for Fedora. Some of the toolboxes have a dependency to other toolboxes.

On the rpm package level, I can use Requires to ask rpm to install these dependent modules, but when running Octave, the pkg load command is not aware of the dependent toolboxes and automatically load them.

I would like to know if pkg is capable of loading dependent toolboxes? if yes, what file I should create to tell pkg such information? for Fedora packaging, the spec file uses the %octave_pkg_{build,install,preun} macros to create toolbox packages, I am wondering if adding dependency info is supported by these macros.

thanks

Qianqian