[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32451] Can't install package from an unpacked tarball

[Simon Munton]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32451>

                 Summary: Can't install package from an unpacked tarball
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: nomis
            Submitted on: Sun 13 Feb 2011 07:33:09 AM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Other
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Simon Munton
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.4.0
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Trying to install a package by passing in the directory of where the package
is no longer works.

octave:1> pkg install .
unpack: FILETYPE must be gunzip for a directory
error: called from `unpack' in file
/usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/miscellaneous/unpack.m near line 47, column 9
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 729, column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 354, column 9

This seems to be caused by a change to the way exist('.', 'file') works, in
that it now returns a non zero value if what is being tested is actually a
directory.

Attached is a possible solution for pkg.m which tests the return value of
exist('', 'file') for the value returned for a file.



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File Attachments:


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Date: Sun 13 Feb 2011 07:33:09 AM GMT  Name: octave-3.4.0.diff  Size: 8kB  
By: nomis
Possible solution
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=22666>

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