John H Palmieri wrote: > On Mar 12, 11:38 am, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- > dortmund.de> wrote: >> Never us cp to copy Sage unless you know what you are doing, but use >> tar. > > Hm. I've never had any problems using cp; in fact I routinely do it > before running 'sage -upgrade'. Does 'cp -pR' count as "knowing what > I'm doing"? >
Is devel/sage a link in your copy? My guess is that using cp -a (which is the same as cp -dpR) works. The "-d" preserves links. This is using gnu cp; I don't know about a mac, though I think the archive option "-a" is even better there. mabshoff: comments? Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---