[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-geometry 1.6.0-1

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Rafael Laboissiere
<rafael at laboissiere.net>wrote:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2012-10-31 23:24]:
>
>
>> The problem is that the "testing" behavior will manifest as soon as there
>> is an "inst" subdir in the directory from which octave is launched.
>>
>
> I am not sure about this.  If you try this:
>
>    $ mkdir /tmp/inst/foo
>    $ cd /tmp
>    $ octave
>    octave:1> path
>
> you will not see /tmp/inst/foo/ in the path.  This is because the code in :
>
>    /usr/lib/<arch>/octave/**packages/geometry-<ver>/<arch>**/PKG_ADD
>
> will only add the inst/* sub-directories if there is a inst/ directory in
> the same directory where that PKG_ADD file is (which will never be the
> case).
>
> Now, the issue that you raised actually happens because the PKG_ADD file
> present in the current directory is always executed by Octave at startup.
> Try this:
>
>    $ echo 'disp("Hello, here is PKG_ADD talking!")' > /tmp/PKG_ADD
>    $ cd /tmp
>    $ octave -q
>    Hello, here is PKG_ADD talking!
>    octave:1>
>
> This means that, in your case, the PKG_ADD that is sending the "warning:
> Adding path for testing" is not the one installed in the octave-geometry
> package, but actually the one in the current directory.
>
> I would say that the raised issue is moot.
>
> Rafael
>
>
I will see if the condition can be improved to make it more specific.
However it doesn't seem pressing. Is that ok?

-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
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