On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:19 -0500, Stanley A. Klein wrote: > FC provides Octave. However, it doesn't provide Octave Forge, which > includes several utilities and other enhancements to Octave. Octave > Forge is released in a version parallel to each release of Octave. > > The Octave Forge release equivalent to the version of Octave provided in > FC3 is only available as a tgz file. An rpm spec is provided in the > file, but there are no instructions how to do the packaging. > > I suggest that future releases of FC should include Octave Forge as well > as Octave. > > However, in the interim, can anyone provide a simple explanation of how > to use the rpm spec provided in the Octave Forge release to produce a > compatible FC3 rpm for Octave Forge? Think what you want is the -t option to rpmbuild to get the specfile from inside the archive. See "man rpmbuild" "/-tSTAGE". Phil
