On Jun 29, 4:13 pm, François Bissey <f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: > sage doesn't assume that the patch command is installed but rely on cp being > there. That's why patch aren't used. > I agree not ideal but that's a lowest common denominator issue.
Perhaps compare the md5sum of the original and bail if it's not the expected number? Any time a file changes, the file we replace it with in the spkg-install should probably change as well. Do our prerequisites include some checksumming or hashing utility? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org