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

[Thomas Weber]

Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2009, 12:30 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at loria.fr> [2009-02-11 00:16]:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Thomas: is this the same as Bug#513576?

I don't think so. Seems to me like octave is accessing .octave_hist
despite the --no-history flag. Snippet from 
	$ strace -f octave --no-history

open("/home/weber/.octave_hist", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/home/weber/.octave_hist", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) = 3

I seem to remember that this came up once already, but can't find it
currently.

	Thomas