Hi Yes. Thank you. I place a small role in Sage, thanks to all the upstream developers.
The PPA is not a real package built from source, but a binary package copying files over form an upstream binary built on Sage's buildfarm. Something about Sage's build process which I don't understand makes it extremely hard to debianize, but also hard enough for me to just to copy into place. Regards, Jan On 4 February 2016 at 17:00, Graham Gerrard <graham.gerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have sorted out most of the problem here. > > (a) Installation time for 7.0 only 7 minutes not 30, sorry (went for a > cup of tea); > > (b) Solution to installing database_gap is to the save the compiled > version in my own tar file and reinstall in the next version from there. > Works OK on test. As I use several more GAP packages, all are now > installed in a single tar file and I expect future installations to be > suitably rapid. > > Graham > > > On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:43:33 UTC, Graham Gerrard wrote: >> >> Recent installation of Linux binaries on Ubuntu now takes much longer >> than a few versions ago. Binary unpacks, no problem. After linking to the >> new version in /usr/local/bin, the first run of sage initiates a large >> amount of time consuming checking and updating, used to be a minute or 2, >> now at least 30. All OK, after a suitable wait. >> >> Installation of an additional package (in my case, database_gap) using >> "sage -i database_gap", initiates another automated collection of (>500) >> steps, which eventually results in a successfully install. Similar wait. >> Again successful. >> >> I can install a similar gap database by unpacking an older version, e.g. >> database_gap-4.7.7.tar.bz2 and copying the bits into the right place in the >> GAP directory. Very much quicker (and seems to work). >> >> Is this longer installation time to be expected in the future? Am I >> doing something wrong? >> >> Graham >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
