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patch #8491: Make pkg handle and display (in textmode) package documentation in info format

Submitter:  Olaf Till <i7tiol>
Submitted:  Mon 30 Jun 2014 06:26:21 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core : new feature Priority:  3 - Low
Status:  Wont Do Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sat 18 Jan 2020 11:41:23 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Review for Octave 6.

No interest for almost 6 years.  pkg tool changed a lot since then.

Closing item.

Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Tue 01 Jul 2014 07:01:40 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Would be possible, but then the file would have to be renamed for installation, because in its installation directory (usr/local/share/info/ or something, if not configured otherwise) it will usually be among the systems info files. I thought it's better if the file is not renamed, to avoid confusion, but maybe this is not so important.

Olaf Till <i7tiol>
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Mon 30 Jun 2014 07:59:13 PM UTC, comment #1: 

If the doc dir is already specific to Octave packages, why not just use the name of the package instead of prepending "octave-"?

John W. Eaton <jwe>
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Mon 30 Jun 2014 06:26:21 PM UTC, original submission:  

This patch makes pkg handle and display package documentation in textmode. A minimal testpackage is also attached for convenience.

Package documentation is assumed to be in doc/octave-<packagename>.info (not compressed). Should work for global and local installation. Info installation directory configurable (3rd option of `pkg prefix'; since prefix and archprefix are also independent and there is no common root prefix). Installed info filename and directory are noted in the package database file, this is also used to find the documentation for displaying (but here the '.gz' variant is also tried).


  pkg doc packagename -> display top node

  pkg doc packagename entry -> index search for entry




Olaf Till <i7tiol>
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file #31646:  pkginfo.changeset added by i7tiol (25KiB - application/octet-stream)
file #31647:  testpackage-0.0.1.tar.gz added by i7tiol (3KiB - application/x-tgz)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2020-01-18 siko1056 CategoryNone Core : new feature
        Priority5 - Normal 3 - Low
        StatusNone Wont Do
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2014-06-30 i7tiol Attached File- Added pkginfo.changeset, #31646
        Attached File- Added testpackage-0.0.1.tar.gz, #31647

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