[Attn Maintainer] octave

[Marco Atzeri]

On 5/30/2015 8:01 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>
> TeXLive had the same problem, that's one of the reasons perpetual
> postinstall scripts were introduced.  You can look at that to see how
> Ken deals with that.
..
 > Regards,
 > Achim.
 >

Hi Achim,
if I understood correctly a script called

   /etc/postinstall/zp_octave_finish.dash

will be always executed at the end of the postinstall script
sequence and never renamed as ".done".

I am moving the octave update script in
  /var/lib/octave/update_packages_list

so the new octave update should work as:

1) every octave-forge preremove/postinstall script
    touches /var/lib/octave/update.flag

2) zp_octave_finish.dash checks if
    /var/lib/octave/update.flag exists
   and if so execute
   /usr/bin/octave-cli /var/lib/octave/update_packages_list

3) /var/lib/octave/update_packages_list
    updates the octave package database and removes the
   /var/lib/octave/update.flag

If there are no fork issue on 32 bit, I will implement
in this way on 4.0.0 that I am just building together with
update of the 50s octave-forge packages.

Regards
Marco