Re: octave 4.4 for Fedora 28/29

[Orion Poplawski]

On 11/23/18 11:13 AM, Colin Macdonald wrote:
> On 2018-11-19 7:31 p.m., Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > FYI -
> >
> >     I'm trying out the new Modular / AppStream functionality of Fedora 
> > 28+ to try to provide octave 4.4 (currently 4.4.1) updates.  I've just 
> > submitted the octave 4.4 module to the updates-testing-modular repo. 
> > I'd be grateful for those of you on Fedora to give it a try.
>
> Orion,
>
> TL;DR it works on F28.
>
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>
> I've not poked at modules yet so this seemed a good time to try... I'll 
> document below on F28 in case others were also unsure how to play with 
> the New Shiny...
>
> # dnf install fedora-repos-modular
>
> # dnf module list
>
> There was no Octave, presumably b/c its in testing still, so I enabled
> /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing-modular.repo
>
> # dnf module list
>
> octave                            4.4                         
> 20181118231341
>
> - - - - - - -
>
> # dnf module install octave:4.4
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:19 ago on Fri 23 Nov 2018 10:01:28 
> AM PST.
> Error: No such profile: octave:4.4:20181118231341/default

The next version of the octave module will have a default profile that 
will install the main octave package.  There could be other profiles as 
well if it makes sense to have them.

> - - - - - - -
>
> So then I tried:
>
> # dnf module enable octave:4.4
> 'octave:4.4' is enabled
>
> # dnf install octave
> Dependencies resolved.
> ========================================================================================================================================= 
>
>   Package                     Arch                Version 
>                        Repository                            Size
> ========================================================================================================================================= 
>
> Upgrading:
>   octave                      x86_64 
> 6:4.4.1-1.module_2492+8a359c74               updates-testing-modular 
>            16 M
>   octave-devel                x86_64 
> 6:4.4.1-1.module_2492+8a359c74               updates-testing-modular 
>           549 k
>   octave-doctest              noarch 
> 0.6.1-4.module_2492+8a359c74                 updates-testing-modular 
>            28 k
>
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>
> Now my /usr/bin/octave is 4.4.1.  No idea where my old 4.2 octave is 
> because AFAICT it never uninstalled the old RPM.  Probably I just don't 
> understand modular yet.
>
> thanks,
> Colin

The modular system in Fedora does not allow for parallel installs of 
different versions.  So you had a straight upgrade from 4.2 to 4.4. 
Thanks for spelling out the steps as well.

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