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bug #36453: pkg uninstall -global 'something uninstalled' clears the cached package database

Submitter:  Muhali <muhali>
Submitted:  Fri 11 May 2012 06:36:26 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Incorrect Result
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Fri 13 Mar 2015 02:42:02 AM UTC, comment #3: 

This was reported again as bug #44524 and fixed in changeset:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/6670df97456c

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Tue 12 Jun 2012 01:35:11 PM UTC, comment #2: 

This is also happening on Windows, but it does not require the -global flag, as package (un)install is global by default under native Windows.

Michael Goffioul <goffioul>
Sun 13 May 2012 02:15:24 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Actually the packages are not uninstalled, the global_list file is just deleted.  As a workaround, running


pkg rebuild -global


should give you back your list of installed packages.

In testing this I have discovered some other odd related behaviors.  Does anyone know why a global uninstall iterates first through the union of local and global packages, then local packages only?

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/9e4ad3f1f291/scripts/pkg/private/uninstall.m#l47

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member
Fri 11 May 2012 06:36:26 PM UTC, original submission:  

Suppose package 'foo' is not installed. Then doing


pkg uninstall -global foo


leads to a loss of all globally installed packages.

Muhali <muhali>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2015-03-13 mtmiller StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2014-03-09 mtmiller Dependencies- bugs #41812 is dependent
    2013-10-28 mtmiller CategoryNone Octave Function
        Item GroupNone Incorrect Result
        Operating SystemGNU/Linux Any
    2012-06-12 mtmiller Summarypkg uninstall -global \'something uninstalled\' uninstalls everything (global) pkg uninstall -global 'something uninstalled' clears the cached package database
    2012-05-13 mtmiller StatusNone Confirmed

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