[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#514802: octave-symbolic: (un)install accesses user .octave_hist

[Marc Glisse]

Package: octave-symbolic
Version: 1.0.6-3
Severity: normal

Whenever I install or uninstall octave-symbolic (so I have this twice for
any upgrade), I get the message:

error: Permission denied

Looking at the output of strace -f, I notice that this happens because
something tries to access my .octave_hist. I am running the command as:
sudo apt-get ...
so HOME still points to my user directory, which is NFS mounted (so no
access for root).

If the install process needs to run octave, I guess it should specify the
configuration files to use.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave-symbolic depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22          Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libatlas3gf-sse2 [libl 3.6.0-22          Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcln5                1.2.2-2           Class Library for Numbers (C++)
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3.1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1.1       GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.2-1.1         Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libginac1.4            1.4.3-1           The GiNaC symbolic framework (runt
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-1           library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20081213-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3.1           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1.1         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  octave3.0              1:3.0.1-6lenny1   GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

octave-symbolic recommends no packages.

octave-symbolic suggests no packages.

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