Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Re: update-alternatives and Octave packages
On 2/11/06, Colin Ingram <synergizedmusic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > It might be possible to write a script (called, say,
> > /usr/bin/octave-update-alternatives) which will be called from the
> > postinst scripts of both octave2.* and octave2.*-headers packages. This
> > script would install the alternatives with the appropriate slave links
> > according to the presence or absence of the octave2.*-headers in the
> > system. I have not yet tested this idea, though, so I do not know if it
> > really works. I will give a try next week, unless someone else beats me
> > on that.
>
>
> its pretty rough and incomplete but how about something like this:
>
a more complete version
#!/bin/bash
major_versions="2.1 2.9"
man="/usr/share/man/man1/"
bin="/usr/bin/"
include="/usr/include/"
share="/usr/share/"
info="${share}info"
debian="${share}octave/debian/"
for v in $major_versions
do
if [ $v == "2.1" ]; then VERSION=2.1.72; PRIORITY=80; fi
if [ $v == "2.9" ]; then VERSION=2.9.4; PRIORITY=70; fi
packages="octave$v octave$v-headers octave$v-emacsen octave$v-info"
for g in $packages
do
if [ -n `dpkg -l | grep -o "$g "` ]
then
case $g in
octave2.? ) OCTAVE="--install ${bin}octave octave \
${bin}octave-$VERSION $PRIORITY \
--slave ${man}octave.1.gz octave.1.gz \
${man}octave-$VERSION.1.gz \
--slave ${bin}octave-bug octave-bug \
${bin}octave-bug-$VERSION \
--slave ${man}octave-bug.1.gz \
octave-bug.1.gz \
${man}octave-bug-$VERSION.1.gz"
;;
octave2.?-headers ) HEADERS="--slave ${bin}mkoctfile mkoctfile \
${bin}mkoctfile-$VERSION \
--slave ${man}mkoctfile.1.gz \
mkoctfile.1.gz \
${man}mkoctfile-$VERSION.1.gz\
--slave ${bin}octave-config \
octave-config \
${bin}octave-config-$VERSION\
--slave ${man}octave-config.1.gz \
octave-config.1.gz \
${man}octave-config-$VERSION.1.gz\
--slave ${bin}octave-depends \
octave-depends \
${bin}octave-depends-$VERSION\
--slave ${man}octave-depends.1.gz \
octave-depends.1.gz \
${man}octave-depends-$VERSION.1.gz\
--slave ${include}octave \
octave-include \
${include}octave-$VERSION \
--slave ${debian}defs.make \
octave-defs.make \
${debian}defs.make-$VERSION"
;;
octave2.?-emacsen ) EMACS="--slave ${bin}otags otags \
${bin}otags-$VERSION \
--slave ${man}otags.1.gz otags.1.gz \
${man}otags-$VERSION.1.gz"
;;
octave2.?-info ) if [ -n `dpgk -l | grep -o "octave$v` ]
then
INFO="--slave ${info}octave.info.gz \
octave.info.gz \
${info}octave$v.info.gz \
--slave ${info}liboctave.info.gz \
liboctave.info.gz \
${info}liboctave$v.info.gz \
--slave ${info}Octave-FAQ.info.gz \
Octave-FAQ.info.gz \
${info}Octave$v-FAQ.info.gz"
else
for f in octave@v liboctave@v Octave@v-FAQ
do
g=`echo $f | sed s/@v//`
h=`echo $f | sed s/@v/$v/`
INFO="--install ${info}$h.info.gz \
$g.info.gz \
${info}$i.info.gz \
$PRIORITY"
done
fi
;;
# In anticipation of octave-forge package split
# octave-forge2.? ) FORGE="--slave ${bin}mex mex \
# ${bin}mex-$VERSION \
# --slave ${man}mex.1.gz \
# mex.1.gz \
# ${man}mex-$VERSION.1.gz"
# ;;
esac
fi
done
update-alternatives $OCTAVE $HEADERS $EMACS $INFO $FORGE
done
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