[octave] packaging bug! (was: Re: man, info fail me in cygwin 1.5.18)
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 15 02:37:00 GMT 2005
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 07:27:02PM -0700, James R. Phillips wrote:
>--- Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:33:33PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> > Rolf Maier wrote:
>> > > If I type 'info man' I get multiple listings to help on fftw3 and
>> > >Octave,
>> > >and nothing else. Can anyone tell me what might have happened,
>> > >and hence what I need to fix?
>>
>> Manually run /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh.done
>>
>
>Sometimes setup.exe runs that script. What triggers that?
The existence of .info files in your .tar.bz2 file. A dependency is added to
setup.ini automatically, if that is the case. From setup.ini:
sdesc: "The GNU Octave language for numerical computations"
ldesc: "The GNU Octave language for numerical computations
Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level language, primarily
intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line
interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically."
category: Math
requires: cygwin lapack gnuplot less libreadline6 texinfo _update-info-dir
>Is it necessary to have a post-install script if setup does it for you
>anyway?
update-info-dir isn't foolproof (it isn't necessarily triggered if you
download files to your system and then install them) so, yes, it is best
to have a postinstall script to do this.
cgf
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