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bug #39392: geometry package: loading/unloading the package may clobber user variables

Submitter:  Rafael Laboissière <rlaboiss>
Submitted:  Tue 02 Jul 2013 06:40:56 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Package Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Incorrect Result
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * other Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Tue 12 Apr 2016 11:52:29 AM UTC, comment #6: 

This was fixed some weeks ago as part of bug #47503 (see http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/geometry/rev/5850349b8181 )

Carnë Draug <carandraug>
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Sun 28 Jul 2013 09:23:33 PM UTC, comment #5: 

It is a good idea.
I will do this asap.

Cheers

Juan Pablo Carbajal <juanpi>
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Sun 28 Jul 2013 06:50:40 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Yes, this is an elegant solution.  I would just suggest to use "internal" names like _pkg_add_geometry_ and __pkg_del_geometry.

Rafael Laboissière <rlaboiss>
Sun 28 Jul 2013 06:33:26 PM UTC, comment #3: 

The function would be in the very own PKG_ADD script. All of it could be turned into a functin which is then called at the end, i.e., the PKG_ADD file becomes


function pkg_add_geometry
  ## all of the code that is currently in PKG_ADD
endfunction
pkg_add_geometry ();


Carnë Draug <carandraug>
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Wed 03 Jul 2013 05:45:56 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I have thought about this, but where would such a function be placed?

Rafael Laboissière <rlaboiss>
Wed 03 Jul 2013 03:46:47 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Maybe an even "cleaner" alternative could be to place the whole code in PKG_ADD into a function, which is just called at the end of it?

Carnë Draug <carandraug>
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Tue 02 Jul 2013 06:40:56 AM UTC, original submission:  

When loading/unloading the geometry package, some variables defined by the users may be clobbered, like in the example below:


octave:1> pkg unload geometry
octave:2> ii = 0;
octave:3> pkg load geometry
octave:4> ii
error: 'ii' undefined near line 4 column 1


This happens because the scripts PKG_{ADD,DEL} use and clear a series of variables.  One possible solution for the problem is provided in the patch attached to this bug report. This patch is pretty minimal and just wraps the commands in both PKG_ADD and PKG_DEL inside functions with quite "unlikely" names _geometry_pkg{add,del}__, which are called afterwards. These functions are cleared at the end of the scripts.

This problem also affects other Octave-Forge packages.  I will try to track them down soon.

Rafael Laboissière <rlaboiss>

 

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file #28475:  unintrusive-pkg-add-del.patch added by rlaboiss (1KiB - text/x-patch - Patch for PKG_ADD and PKG_DEL)

 

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    2016-04-12 carandraug StatusNone Fixed
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    2013-07-02 rlaboiss Attached File- Added unintrusive-pkg-add-del.patch, #28475

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