Re: any impacts of adding this line to default .octaverc ?

[PhilipNienhuis]

NJank wrote
>> A simple try-catch around the "pkg rebuild" line could serve as a
> band-aid.
> 
> so something like:
> 
> if (exist(pkg("global_list"),"file") == 0)
>   try
>     pkg rebuild;
>   catch
>   end_try_catch
> endif
> 
> would take care of it? the point just being to avoid a nagging error on
> startup.  I did notice that whenever I do a pkg rebuild I get four
> "skipping line" messages, and that will come up every time if the case you
> mentioned occurs. Didn't see a 'quiet' option in pkg help.
> 
> I guess the only other problem would be if someone made manual changes to
> octave_packages that would be overwritten by a 'pkg rebuild'.

AFAIK octave_packages is not to be manually edited. So any user / hacker
attempting that would do so at his/her own risk anyway.

Philip




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