Re: [sage-support] Upgrade from source fails

2011-12-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-12-15 22:45, William Stein wrote: >> This is a bug in Sage > It's not really a bug, it is more of a misfeature[1]. I'm confused, because I think it's a straight up bug. The error message says there are uncommitted changes. However

Re: [sage-support] Upgrade from source fails

2011-12-15 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-12-15 22:45, William Stein wrote: > This is a bug in Sage It's not really a bug, it is more of a misfeature[1]. It is *intented* behaviour with unfortunate consequences. [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/misfeature.html -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.c

Re: [sage-support] Upgrade from source fails

2011-12-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Anthony Wickstead wrote: > I am trying to upgrade my Sage 4.7.1 installation using "./sage - > upgrade" [and also using "upgrade()" from within sage]. After checking > mirrors, telling me that six packages will be upgraded  and warning me > that it could take hours

[sage-support] Upgrade from source fails

2011-12-15 Thread Anthony Wickstead
I am trying to upgrade my Sage 4.7.1 installation using "./sage - upgrade" [and also using "upgrade()" from within sage]. After checking mirrors, telling me that six packages will be upgraded and warning me that it could take hours, the upgrade aborts with the message "There are uncommitted change