* Rafael Laboissiere <raf...@laboissiere.net> [2012-07-11 19:58]:
> * Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org> [2012-07-11 13:02]:
>
> > 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?
>
> Well, in pkg.m we have already this:
>
> try
> archprefix = absolute_pathname (archprefix);
> catch
> mkdir (archprefix);
> warning ("creating the directory %s\n", archprefix);
> archprefix = absolute_pathname (archprefix);
> end_try_catch
>
> My fix regarding the "prefix" variable was inspired in the code above.
> Your criticisms would also apply to this.
>
> BTW, should we move this discussion to the octave-maintainers mailing
> list?
I submitted a bug report (#36830) about this bug on the Savannah bug
tracker.
Rafael
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