octave-time has been merged into octave-financial

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

octave-time has been merged into octave-financial. See ​http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The error message you're having the port print in the pre-configure block says the port is replaced by octave-miscellaneous, but it's actually replaced by octave-financial. Probably a copy/paste error, but it illustrates the pitfalls of repeating information in a portfile. For values that are used more than once in a portfile, define the value only once, in a variable, then use that variable anywhere else it's needed. In this case, the variable is ${replaced_by}. Or use the obsolete 1.0 portgroup to simplify the port and also avoid this problem.

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

The error message you're having the port print in the pre-configure block says the port is replaced by octave-miscellaneous, but it's actually replaced by octave-financial. Probably a copy/paste error, but it illustrates the pitfalls of repeating information in a portfile. For values that are used more than once in a portfile, define the value only once, in a variable, then use that variable anywhere else it's needed. In this case, the variable is ${replaced_by}. Or use the obsolete 1.0 portgroup to simplify the port and also avoid this problem.

As per Ryan's suggestion, changed Portfile to use PortGroup obsolete.

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

Cc Me!

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

I noticed when obsoleting another octave port that using the PortGroup obsolete doesn't print out an error message if you try to install it. I had to add a pre-fetch error message. I presume that something in the octave PortGroup is causing this.

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

done r134925