Re: pkg install

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 06/03/2017 12:09 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 03/06/2017 07:55, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> > I have a local package with a packinfo directory containing
> >
> > > ls packinfo
> > COPYING  DESCRIPTION  INDEX
> >
> > The tar.gz file also contains these files
> >
> > octave:77> pkg install geographiclib-1.0.0.tar.gz
> > package is missing file: COPYING
> > error: called from
> >     install>verify_directory at line 335 column 7
> >     install at line 109 column 9
> >     pkg at line 394 column 9
> > octave:77> ls geographiclib-1.0.0/packinfo/
> > COPYING  DESCRIPTION  INDEX
> >
> > What am I doing wrong???
> >
> > Tom Dean
>
> I am not aware that geographiclib is a octave package.
>
> packinfo is not in the usual structure of a
> octave source package:
>
> $ tar -tf io-2.4.7.tar.gz
> io-2.4.7/
> io-2.4.7/COPYING
> io-2.4.7/DESCRIPTION
> io-2.4.7/INDEX
> io-2.4.7/NEWS
> io-2.4.7/doc/
> io-2.4.7/doc/READ-ODS.html
> io-2.4.7/doc/READ-XLS.html
> io-2.4.7/inst/
> io-2.4.7/inst/__exit_io__.m
> io-2.4.7/inst/__init_io__.m

This is a local package, not distributed.

Most of these files are optional.  I read the package part of the docs.

As I understand it, on 'pkg install', octave executes the file PKG_ADD, 
if it exists.

In my case, copying from the geometry package and changing some names, 
PKG_ADD calls __geometry_package_register__ in the .m file of the same name.

But, I changed to a structure similar to the above.  More problems, 
which I addressed in an email with a different subject.

Thanks for the reply.