[GRASS-dev] r.pack failing on reclassed maps

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> >> r.pack is failing on reclassed maps and just packaging the reclass stuff.
> >> how to deal with that?
> >>
> >> - either fatal error with a reasonable suggestion to the user
> >> - or generate internally a map copy with r.mapcalc (slower), then package
> >> ?
> >
> > First, is this actually a failure?
> 
> Yesm in a sense that r.unpack fails on such a package.

In what way? It assumes that certain elements exist?

> > In any case, there doesn't appear to be a supported programmatic
> > method for determining that a map is a reclass. r.info includes
> > relcass information in the default "formatted" output, and in the
> > output for -h, but neither of these are designed to be
> > machine-readable.
> 
> Probably yet another flag is needed since I don't like to much
> to mess around in the mapset at filesystem level.
> 
> For example
> -i Is map a reclassified map?
> reclass=yes|no

For a reclass map, it should output at least the base map and
optionally the reclass table (although the latter may be a job for a
separate module, e.g. r.reclasss.out).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>