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bug #47491: pkg: no method to query directories where package is installed

Submitter:  CarnĂ« Draug <carandraug>
Submitted:  Tue 22 Mar 2016 04:10:51 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  None Assigned to:  None
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Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
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Wed 23 Mar 2016 06:22:44 AM UTC, comment #1: 

On global packages the two dirs are not nested

/usr/lib/octave/packages/io-2.4.1/i686-pc-cygwin-api-v50+/
/usr/share/octave/packages/io-2.4.1/

They have the same separation of octave tree

/usr/lib/octave/4.0.0/exec/i686-pc-cygwin/
/usr/lib/octave/4.0.0/oct/i686-pc-cygwin/
/usr/share/octave/4.0.0/m

marco atzeri <matzeri>
Tue 22 Mar 2016 04:10:51 AM UTC, original submission:  

An installed package has two directories, an arch independent directory with all the m files, and an arch dependent with all the oct files (this is a bit of a farce since the the later is nested on the first).

To find the location of the arch independent directory, one can search through "pkg list".  However, there is is no way to find the other directory.  The most typical solution is to use octave_config_info to deduce that directory.  However, this only works because the directories are nested and requires knowledge of the internals of pkg.

Path for both directories could be returned by pkg describe (pkg list is a bit of a pain because it always returns the info for all packages in a cell array of scalar structs).

Carnë Draug <carandraug>
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