Bug 424463

Summary:	app-portage/g-octave please provide an updated database
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) <mrueg>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Science Mathematics related packages <sci-mathematics>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	sci-mathematics
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	drop in replacement to update g-octave-db

Description Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-02 02:57:33 UTC

Please provide an updated database, as many octave packages have seen updates since the last year.

https://github.com/rafaelmartins/g-octave-db was updated on 2011/09/18

See updates on:
http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html

Comment 1 cmuelle8 2012-08-03 22:03:54 UTC

Created attachment 320224 [details]
drop in replacement to update g-octave-db

You need a configured /etc/g-octave.conf

- the script looks for variable "db" and changes into this directory
- it then uses wget to fetch octave-forge pkgs from the official site
- it extracts "DESCRIPTION" files from the archives and puts them into the proper place for g-octave to work


- check the results with

    g-octave --list


- update your local repo with

    g-octave --list-raw | while read ; do g-octave --force -p $REPLY ; done


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