Need Octave Forge rpm

[Phil Schaffner]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:19 -0500, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
> FC provides Octave.  However, it doesn't provide Octave Forge, which
> includes several utilities and other enhancements to Octave.  Octave
> Forge is released in a version parallel to each release of Octave.
> 
> The Octave Forge release equivalent to the version of Octave provided in
> FC3 is only available as a tgz file.  An rpm spec is provided in the
> file, but there are no instructions how to do the packaging.
> 
> I suggest that future releases of FC should include Octave Forge as well
> as Octave.
> 
> However, in the interim, can anyone provide a simple explanation of how
> to use the rpm spec provided in the Octave Forge release to produce a
> compatible FC3 rpm for Octave Forge?

Think what you want is the -t option to rpmbuild to get the specfile
from inside the archive.  See "man rpmbuild" "/-tSTAGE".

Phil