Octave

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 14:48, mark brethen <mbrethen at aim.com> wrote:
> I looked at portfiles of various octave packages already created (e.g. octave-plot, octave-statistics, etc.) and am puzzled why there isn't a download URL listed. How does port know where to find them? Do I need to include one for an octave-symbolic portfile I'm creating?

If you look up toward the top of the Portfiles, you'll see the line

    PortGroup           octave 1.0

which is a canned recipe for Octave-related ports.  You can find these under

    mress:10062 Z$ ls
/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/_resources/port1.0/group
    archcheck-1.0.tcl      octave-1.0.tcl         qt4-1.0.tcl
    cmake-1.0.tcl          perl5-1.0.tcl          ruby-1.0.tcl
    crossbinutils-1.0.tcl  php5extension-1.0.tcl  select-1.0.tcl
    gnustep-1.0.tcl        pure-1.0.tcl           swigbinding-1.0.tcl
    haskell-1.0.tcl        python24-1.0.tcl       tests/
    hocbinding-1.0.tcl     python25-1.0.tcl       texlive-1.0.tcl
    hunspelldict-1.0.tcl   python26-1.0.tcl       x11font-1.0.tcl
    kde4-1.0.tcl           python27-1.0.tcl       xcode-1.0.tcl
    kde4-1.1.tcl           python31-1.0.tcl       xcodeversion-1.0.tcl
    muniversal-1.0.tcl     python32-1.0.tcl       zope-1.0.tcl


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