[Pkg-octave-devel] global package files in build directory

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-05-12 22:58]:

> when building -forge packages with cowbuilder, I end up with Octave
> global packages files in 
> 	/var/cache/pbuilder/result
> 
> Those file end with a dot:
> $ ls *.
> octave-informationtheory-0.1.5.  
> octave-io-1.0.6.                 
> octave-irsa-1.0.5.            
> octave-linear-algebra-1.0.5.
> octave-miscellaneous-1.0.6.
> octave-octcdf-1.0.9.
> 
> $ head octave-informationtheory-0.1.5.
> # Created by Octave 3.0.1, Mon May 12 08:06:55 2008 UTC <xxx at yyy>
> # name: global_packages
> # type: cell
> # rows: 1
> # columns: 1
> # name: <cell-element>
> # type: struct
> # length: 14
> # name: archprefix
> # type: cell
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas what's going on here?

I have already noticed that but did not pay much attention to the problem.
This is probably some black magic from pkg.m or perhaps there is some
problem in the way we invoke pkg in octave-pkg-dev.  I dunno.

-- 
Rafael