Welcome to g-Octave’s documentation!

Author:Rafael Goncalves Martins Website:http://g-octave.org/ Source code:http://hg.g-octave.org/g-octave/ Bugs to:http://bugs.gentoo.org/ Version:0.4.1

Overview

g-Octave is a tool that generates and installs ebuilds for Octave-Forge packages “on-the-fly” to Gentoo Linux, using Portage, Paludis or Pkgcore. It’s capable to generate ebuilds and Manifest files (if needed) for the packages, and to install them using an autogenerated overlay (named g-octave). g-Octave can also handle patches to the packages automatically. The command line interface tries to be very similar to the interface of the emerge tool.

Contents

• Quick Start
  • Installing g-Octave
  • Installing the package
  • Just a line!
• User Guide
  • Installing g-Octave
    • USE flags
  • Configuring g-Octave
    • Using the file /etc/g-octave.cfg
    • Using environment variables
  • Enabling the logging feature
  • Syncronizing the package database
  • Configuring your package manager
  • Installing packages
    • From the upstream source tarballs
    • From the octave-forge SVN repository
  • Updating packages
  • Searching packages
  • Uninstalling packages
  • Troubleshooting
• Upgrading g-Octave
  • From 0.3 to 0.4
• Development
  • Running the test suites
  • Working on the package database
    • Updating the package database
    • Updating the list of external dependencies and licenses
    • Commiting the changes
    • Using your fork as package database
  • Sending patches to the source code
• Tinderbox
  • Creating the environment
  • Configuring the environment
  • Mounting filesystems/directories
  • Entering the chroot environment
  • Updating the packages and installing the dependencies
  • Configuring g-Octave
  • Running the script
  • Umounting filesystems/directories