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 anyone know if pkg is capable of loading dependent toolboxes? if yes, what file I should create to tell pkg such information? because 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 (and how).
thanks
Qianqian
On 10/10/19 9:27 PM, Qianqian Fang wrote:
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 anyone know if pkg is capable of loading dependent toolboxes? if yes, what file I should create to tell pkg such information? because 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 (and how).
Fedora octave rpm packages are configured to be auto-loaded by octave. I'm not sure how "pkg" itself handles package dependencies. The %octave_pkg_* macros do not do anything with regards to dependencies. All dependencies are specified via BuildRequires/Requires.
That's about as much as I can say without any specific examples of any problems you may be seeing.
HTH,
Orion
Hi Orion
Thanks for the comments. Did you mean the packages created by those rpm macros are supposed to be autoloaded when starting octave? Strangely, when I tested all the 4 toolboxes I recently packaged, they are not autoloaded. For example, after installing octave-jnifti or octave-zmat (both in updates-testing repo)
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=30109 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=30102 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/octave-zmat https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/octave-jnifti
I can not call the functions in these toolboxes unless I manually call pkg load. Did I miss anything in the spec file?
Thanks
Qianqian
From: Orion Poplawski Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 12:15 AM To: The Science and Technology Special Interest Group mailing list.; Qianqian Fang Subject: Re: [Scitech] How to create octave packages to allow "pkg load" to beaware of dependencies?
On 10/10/19 9:27 PM, Qianqian Fang wrote:
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 anyone know if pkg is capable of loading dependent toolboxes? if yes, what file I should create to tell pkg such information? because 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 (and how).
Fedora octave rpm packages are configured to be auto-loaded by octave. I'm not sure how "pkg" itself handles package dependencies. The %octave_pkg_* macros do not do anything with regards to dependencies. All dependencies are specified via BuildRequires/Requires.
That's about as much as I can say without any specific examples of any problems you may be seeing.
HTH,
Orion
Hmm, that's what I get for trying to answer this from memory...
Okay, the packages are not auto loaded.
pkg load does appear to load dependent packages, assuming that they are installed (hence the need for proper Requires).
On 10/10/19 10:36 PM, Qianqian Fang wrote:
Hi Orion
Thanks for the comments.
Did you mean the packages created by those rpm macros are supposed to be autoloaded when starting octave? Strangely, when I tested all the 4 toolboxes I recently packaged, they are not autoloaded. For example, after installing octave-jnifti or octave-zmat (both in updates-testing repo)
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=30109
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=30102
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/octave-zmat
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/octave-jnifti
I can not call the functions in these toolboxes unless I manually call pkg load. Did I miss anything in the spec file?
Thanks
Qianqian
*From: *Orion Poplawski mailto:orion@nwra.com *Sent: *Friday, October 11, 2019 12:15 AM *To: *The Science and Technology Special Interest Group mailing list. mailto:scitech@lists.fedoraproject.org; Qianqian Fang mailto:fangqq@gmail.com *Subject: *Re: [Scitech] How to create octave packages to allow "pkg load" to beaware of dependencies?
On 10/10/19 9:27 PM, Qianqian Fang wrote:
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 anyone know if pkg is capable of loading
dependent toolboxes? if yes, what file I should create to tell pkg such
information? because 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 (and
how).
Fedora octave rpm packages are configured to be auto-loaded by octave.
I'm not sure how "pkg" itself handles package dependencies. The
%octave_pkg_* macros do not do anything with regards to dependencies.
All dependencies are specified via BuildRequires/Requires.
That's about as much as I can say without any specific examples of any
problems you may be seeing.
HTH,
Orion
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