I am not sure how your packaging works. Do you install into some temporary directory first and then tar/bzip the resulting directory? Then, if the user changes the directory in which (s)he installs Sage (and this will obviously happen), then it will need to be run as root once.
Also see this ticket which might be relevant for you if you are using the "make install" command: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12347 On Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:59:48 PM UTC+8, Jan Groenewald wrote: > > Hi > > Is it still necessary to run sage as root once to set some paths? > > When one does that, will it create new files? This is important > for debian packaging. > > Regards, > Jan > > > > On 25 February 2012 22:24, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> As an aside, can I get a hold of the scripts that build the binaries >> available >> for download on sagemath.org and mirrors (for Ubuntu LTS only). As a >> first >> step to getting packaging skills and having a deb for people to install, >> I could >> try make a virtual debian package that contains the sage prebuilt, and >> untars >> it, sets permissions, and sets the SAGE_ROOT in the launch script. >> >> Regards, >> Jan >> >> >> >> On 25 February 2012 22:01, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> On 25 February 2012 21:33, Francois Bissey <fbis...@slingshot.co.nz>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Jan, >>>> >>>> we'll need a bit more of your output, especially if you ran parallel >>>> make. >>>> If you could link to the whole maxima build log (in skpg/log) that would >>>> be most useful. >>>> >>>> >>> The maxima bild logs: >>> >>> http://users.aims.ac.za/~jan/maxima-5.23.2.p3.log.lzma >>> >>> That says >>> /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl' >>> >>> I hear on #ubtuntu-motu that debuild sets these flags. I'm googling it, >>> but not finding much. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jan >>> >>> >>> -- >>> .~. >>> /V\ Jan Groenewald >>> /( )\ www.aims.ac.za >>> ^^-^^ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> .~. >> /V\ Jan Groenewald >> /( )\ www.aims.ac.za >> ^^-^^ >> >> > > > -- > .~. > /V\ Jan Groenewald > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za > ^^-^^ > > -- 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
