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

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