On 10/14/06, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 12 October 2006 15:55, David Joyner wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > > > Justin, > > > > > > I'm adding some information to the file that gets created to indicate > > > that a package > > > has been installed. E.g., > > > > > > sha:~/s/spkg/standard was$ more ../installed/pexpect-2.0 > > > PACKAGE NAME: pexpect-2.0 > > > INSTALL DATE: Thu Oct 12 06:49:21 PDT 2006 > > > UNAME: Darwin sha.local 8.7.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.7.1: Wed Jun 7 > > > 16:19:56 P > > > DT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.72.obj~2/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 > > > SAGE VERSION: | SAGE Version 1.4, Build Date: 2006-10-05 | > > > > > > What do you think? Is there anything else you can think of to add. I > > > > Maybe off topic but can you add a mds check sum somehow? I don't even > > know how > > such things work but since you are asking about adding something, this > > might be a time > > to do something like that as a test case, if it isn't too hard to do. > > What would you calculate the checksum on? The spyx file to verify it has been > downloaded correctly?
Yes (if you mean spkg instead of spyx). There would be a webpage on sage.math with the correct checksum so you would need an internet connection. It could be a command from within sage or maybe another (optional) version of "sage -i". > > Just curious, > Martin > > -- > name: Martin Albrecht > _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 > _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb > _icq: 177334829 > _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---