On 11 July 2012 12:44, Rafael Laboissiere <raf...@laboissiere.net> wrote:
> At any rate, the following is a reproducible bug:
>
> $ sudo rmdir /usr/share/octave/packages/
> $ sudo octave --silent --no-history --no-init-file --no-window-system
> --eval "pkg ('rebuild');"
> error: could not find the file or path /usr/share/octave/packages
> error: called from:
> error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 1234, column 5
> error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 418, column 16
> error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/startup/octaverc at line 26, column 1
[snip]
> For fixing the bug, I propose the patch attached below, that changes the
> code in pkg.m.
I'm not sure the fix in the catch block is right. What if creating the
directory fails? Or do we know at that point that this is a writable
location?
- Jordi G. H.
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