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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> [2009-02-13 15:25]:

> On 13-Feb-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> | * John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> [2009-02-13 13:06]:
> | 
> | > The option --no-history is supposed to mean no history at all.  What I
> | > see is that the history file is not read, and commands are not saved
> | > to the history list, but then the history (an empty list) is still
> | > saved to the history file when Octave exits, wiping out whatever was
> | > there before.
> | 
> | I see that this bug affects the 3.1 branch.  It seems that it is not the
> | case for the 3.0 branch.  Could you please confirm?
> 
> What I see with 3.0.3 is that it reads and writes the history file
> even with --no-history.  So that is still wrong, but doesn't have the
> bad effect of truncating the history file as happens with the 3.1.x
> sources prior to the patch I checked in earlier today.

Thanks.  I have already committed a change to the octave3.0 package in SVN
that fixes the both reading and saving history problems.

-- 
Rafael