[GRASS-dev] location wizard borked

[Michael Barton]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:50 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:54:50 +0100
> From: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] location wizard borked
> To: Vincent Bain <bain at toraval.fr>
> Cc: grass-dev <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Hi,
>
> 2009/3/10 Vincent Bain <bain at toraval.fr>:
>> related to the location wizard, perhaps what follows does not deal  
>> with
>> any sort of bug but my misuse of the location creation process :
>>
>> If you need to create from scratch a new gisdabe, located elsewhere  
>> than
>> the current one, the location wizard first writes your new location
>> directory in the /current/ gisdbase instead of the new one you've  
>> just
>> set. Then when you define a new mapset or want to start from within
>> PERMANENT, the application fails, with this message :
>
> seems to work for me.
>
> 1. Create new directory for gisdbase (e.g. $HOME/grassdata1) - mkdir
> 2. Choose gisdbase
> 3. Run location wizard
> 4. New location created in $HOME/grassdata1
>
> ?
>
> Martin

I can confirm this. Regardless of whether you browse to a new  
directory in the startup screen or put in a new gisdbase directory in  
the location wizard, it only makes a location in the "current" gisdbase.

Michael