[Fedora-packaging] Octave package standard

[Orion Poplawski]

I'm currently working with octave upstream to get their new package 
management system in line with Fedora so that we can easily build RPMs 
with it.  I'd like to get a Fedora package standard configured and 
approved at the same time.  I've put a draft on the wiki at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Octave

Some further information:

- Currently octave uses the /usr/libexec tree to install the .oct files. 
  These are really shared libraries.  It does use an arch/api versioned 
directory, e.g.:

/usr/libexec/octave/packages/java-1.2.1/i386-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v26/

Some other package files (PKG_ADD/PKG_DEL) get added there too.

- Currently the entire octave forge collection is part of the 
octave-forge package.  I will releasing this for F8, with the 
understanding that this will be replaced by individual packages later. 
The octave forge package will have provides like:

Provides: octave-gsl = 1.0.1

to try to provide a better upgrade path.  We may want to keep the 
octave-forge as a meta package that pulls in the others.  Let me know if 
this doesn't seem correct.

- DISTPKG (%{octave_distpkg}) is a flag that this is being built by a 
package manager.  The contents get inserted into an informational 
message, but otherwise does not mean much.

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