[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#681064: Bug#681064: Bug#681064: octave: does not configure properly

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 11 July 2012 12:44, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at 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.