[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58225] Installing package fails when package was already installed globally

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #58225 (project octave):

I once entered a (invalid) bug report where it turned out that locally
installed packages in a local octave_packages file "shadow" global ones; I now
remember I would add a cset to document this. (But ATM I can't find the bug
report in Savannah's "my items".)

Anyway, based on this behavior it might be enough to just patch pkg.m to (1)
warn that a global installed package will be shadowed by a newly
to-be-installed package with the same name, and (2) avoid the "permission
denied" error in such cases.

If you guys want I can look into it.


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