From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Jun 3 22:01:49 2003 Subject: Re: Mac OS X build From: "John B. Thoo" To: "Henry F. Mollet" Cc: Per Persson , Heber Farnsworth , Octave_post Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 20:03:38 -0700 FWIW, I do only "fink selfupdate" instead of "fink selfupdate-cvs", followed by "fink update-all" as suggested. Would this make a difference? ---John. On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 07:54 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote: > [Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet% octave > GNU Octave, version 2.1.35 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.2). > > [Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet% fink list octave > Information about 1785 packages read in 11 seconds. > > i octave 2.1.35-10 Matlab-like language for > computations > octave-atlas 2.1.35-6 Matlab-like language, with atlas > libs > > [Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet% fink selfupdate-cvs > sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs > Password: > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package > descriptions. > After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should > then > update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > cvs -z3 update -d -P > cvs update: could not open /Users/mollet/.cvspass: No such file or > directory > cvs [update aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first > ### execution of cvs failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. > [Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet% > > I presume that I'm logged in because I'm communicating with cvs. Then > I've > checked http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/cvsaccess/index.php and found >> Note that this command currently doesn't work if you are behind a >> firewall >> (this is a limitation in CVS, not in Fink). We are working on a >> solution to >> tunnel through HTTP firewalls (by enhancing cvs to support these), >> but no >> release date has been set for this. > I'm using a DSL router which probably has a fire-wall and I don't know > how > to circumvent the firewall if indeed this is the problem. > Henry > > > on 6/3/03 2:52 PM, Per Persson at persquare at mac dot com wrote: > >> To get the latest package descriptions, i.e. those that have been >> changed since the latest point release (0.5.2) use: >> fink selfupdate-cvs >> >> See, http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/cvsaccess/index.php >> >> This is a pure fink issue, unrelated to octave but I'll cc help-octave >> in case anybody has the same problems. >> >> /P >> >> On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 10:44 PM, Heber Farnsworth wrote: >> >>>> >>>>> The fink version of Octave has too many numerical problems to be >>>>> usable. >>>> >>>> IIRC, this was a problem with octave 2.1.40 in fink. >>>> The package was updated because of this, and the fink page lists >>>> 2.1.46 as the current version in both stable and unstable branches. >>>> http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/octave >>> >>> That's right. I have 2.1.40. Fink seems to think this is the most >>> recent. When I type fink update-all it says: >>> >>> Information about 1159 packages read in 0 seconds. >>> >>> No packages to install. >>> >>>> Have you updated the package descriptions? >>>> What does "fink list octave" give you? >>>> http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/bundled/usage.php >>> >>> heberf% fink list octave >>> Information about 1159 packages read in 1 seconds. >>> >>> i octave 2.1.40-1 Matlab-like language for >>> computations >>> >>> >> ------------ >> Per Persson >> Blekinge Institute of Technology >> Dept. of Signal Processing and Telecommunications >> >> www: http://www.its.bth.se/staff/pee >> e-mail: per dot persson at bth dot se >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. >> >> Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org >> How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html >> Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html >> ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org > How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html > Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html > ------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------