2009/11/23 Carlos Córdoba <ccordob...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > Given the fast development pace of sage, I would like to know if it's > possible to do a binary upgrade between releases, similar to what sage > -upgrade does now. I think it's a bit cumbersome to download 400-500 gigs > and uncompress this big tarball every month - two months, especially for > people with old computers, small hard drives and/or who live in developing > countries where internet connections are not too good. > If I understand correctly every sage package is released as a spkg tarball, > so couldn't it be possible that sage just downloads the packages that have > changed between releases and uncompress them in the main sage root? > Sorry if my question has been answered before.
If you have a compiler and know what you are doing you can type sage -upgrade and that will download and *build from source* only the spkg's that have changed. This is far from rock solid, and is not recommended for non-developers. There is no option to do a binary-only upgrade, i.e., one that does not involve compiling code. -- william -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
