"Permission denied" error in uninstallation Edit

[vtjnash]

julia> Pkg.rm("WinRPM")
INFO: Removing WinRPM v0.0.10
mv: cannot move `WinRPM' to `.trash/WinRPM': Permission denied
Error: failed process: Process(`mv WinRPM .trash/`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
  in pipeline_error at process.jk:476
  in run at process.jl:453

It appears to want to move things to .trash, but I don't have such a directory in a fresh MinGW-builds/MSYS environment.

(from jiahao)

[ihnorton]

I'm pretty sure this happens because the .trash/WinRPM directory already exists. Also it is supposed to be ~/.julia/.trash not ~/.trash.

[vtjnash]

@jiahao I assume the ~ assumption was just a mistake? (also the RinRPM in the backtrace)

[jiahao]

Fixed, thanks. I transcribed the error from a console that wouldn't let me copy text from

[quinnj]

Do you know if this is still an issue @jiahao? I'm having trouble reproducing even if I manually stick a folder with a package name in .trash and Pkg.rm(). Would there be a difference between msys and msys2 handling here?

[jiahao]

I only noticed this on MSYS, not MSYS2. Haven't tried recently, though.

[quinnj]

I was just able to reproduce this (coincidentally):

julia> Pkg.rm("testing")
INFO: Removing testing (unregistered)
mv: cannot move ‘testing’ to ‘.trash/testing’: Permission denied
ERROR: failed process: Process(`mv testing .trash/`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
 in pipeline_error at process.jl:502
 in remove at pkg/write.jl:43
 in rm at pkg/entry.jl:77
 in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
 in cd at file.jl:30
 in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28
 in rm at pkg.jl:19

[quinnj]

I believe this will be addressed by #7041, #7046

[vtjnash]

likely fixed, since the two referenced issues are now closed/merged