Also, to revert in the meantime, do wget https://launchpad.net/~aims/+archive/ubuntu/sagemath/+build/7499250/+files/sagemath-upstream-binary_6.7ppa10revert6.6.aims6-2_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i sagemath-upstream-binary_6.7ppa10revert6.6.aims6-2_amd64.deb sudo apt-mark hold sagemath-upstream-binary
Regards, Jan On 12 June 2015 at 17:53, Jan Groenewald <jan.groenew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > The more important drop is the whole src folder, which I think is needed > for rebuilds. We did it to save space and bandwidth, and most importantly > you should not be compiling as root which is necessary to install optional > packages, which we intentially dropped now.. Perhaps a poll on this is > necessary. > > In principle the PPA supports easy install and upgrades, and I am not sure > how to safely install, except perhaps to have all files owned by a new > sagemath user we'd have to create and incorporate, and also the deb is > built from prebuilt binaries, see a recent thread about sagemath binaries > unsuitable for development. > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/sage-devel/binaries$20development/sage-devel/QdwdT8J8q50/TyLCIeAF37cJ > > At the moment we don't want to immediately revert. We could have a package > sagemath-source which installs the latest source, but you are probably > better of with a source tree of your own. How big is the need for optional > packages via the PPA? We have a need for gap_packages at our institution, > and a few others. > > Regards, > Jan > > On 12 June 2015 at 17:13, Gérard JASTRZEB <gerard.jastr...@free.fr> wrote: > >> First of all, I let me thank you for maintaining a PPA for SAGEMATH. >> But since v6.7 there is a problem for those who want to install >> SAGEMANIFOLDS as well. >> You dropped Makefile and .git from /usr/lib/sagemath (system install), >> which are mandatory for SAGEMANIFOLDS, as the install script (stable >> version) triggers a re-build of sage and the development version >> installs via git. Here is the link for it : >> http://sagemanifolds.obspm.fr/download.html >> >> Thank you for having a look at it. >> Gérard JASTRZEB >> gerard,jastr...@free.fr >> -- >> This message was sent from Launchpad by >> =?utf-8?q?G=C3=A9rard_JASTRZEB?= (https://launchpad.net/~gerard-jastrzeb) >> using the "Contact this team's admins" link on the AIMS team page >> (https://launchpad.net/~aims). >> For more information see >> https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
