Re: Changes to package installer to handle rpm builds

[Orion Poplawski]

David Bateman wrote:
> Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > This will take a fair bit of work, but I think we need a way to pass the
> > installer a directory containing a built package and have it install
> > that without running configure/make.
>
> Orion,
>
> This is essentially what the "package" target in the octave-forge
> packages Makefile does. It makes a binary package that can be installed
> correctly without rerunning configure or make. Why does this
> functionality need to be migrated to the Octave pkg command itself?
>
> Regards
> David

I sent this before realizing this.  However, it is still inefficient to 
tar up a directory just to have the octave installer untar it again. 
Not critical though...


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