On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> (3) Any changes or customizations the user makes anywhere to their >> sage install will be *deleted*. >> >> I think (3) is perhaps the biggest issue. > > > I think emphasizing that this is a binary upgrade and *only* works to > overwrite your current sage directory to an exact copy of a fresh binary > build would be sufficient.
Note, moreover, that if the users installs *any* optional packages, these are all deleted too. > Note that doing the rsync (to a copy of your current sage directory) is > no different than downloading the binary and untarring it, but > presumably it is quite a bit faster and requires less bandwidth. It is no different assuming you didn't make any changes at all. And of course, Mike's right -- it costs a lot more from a bandwidth perspective.... > If someone borks their install and can't figure out how to fix it, this > also might be an easy way to "start fresh". > > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
