Can't install octave packages with octave-devel installed

[mark brethen]

The port files use a PortGroup to set up the standard environment for building the particular octave module. I took a peek at the octave 1.0 group, which lists 'depends_lib port:octave'. If I understand this correctly, it tried to install octave first, but since I have octave-devel installed, I get the 'conflicts' message. This begs another question: Why not upgrade octave to its current rev. instead of making a -devel port?

-Mark



On Jul 23, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:29, mark brethen wrote:
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>> There is a conflict when trying to install octave packages (e.g. octave-general) if octave-devel is installed.
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>> Mark-Brethens-MacBook-Pro:group marbre$ sudo port -v install octave-generalPassword:
>> --->  Computing dependencies for octave-general..Error: Unable to execute port: Can't install octave because conflicting ports are installed: octave-devel
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>> I can understand why you should not be able to install octave if octave-devel is already installed, but the packages will work with either version. Can the 'conflicts' keyword be suppressed?
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> Then all ports that use octave need to rewrite their octave dependency such that either octave or octave-devel can satisfy it. See ticket #14540.
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