I'm running Julia 0.3.7 and am attempting to regenerate my ~/.julia/v0.3 directory (after carefully saving the old one). I'm having a problem with building several packages that have dependencies. The problem packages include Cairo, HDF5, Nettle, and Images. I'm working as a user without root privileges on CentOS 6.5. Julia hangs when building these packages, apparently in the step where Yum is being invoked to install a dependency. Our company's security posture recently became much stricter, and the system administrators recently locked down the computer, so that no downloads are allowed from anywhere (I'm using a local copies, obtained with special permission, of all Julia registered packages to do the package installations). When I look into one of my old package directories in my old saved ~/.julia/v0.3 directory, I see that the deps subdirectory of these older installed packages also contains an automatically generated file named deps.jl that shows that the package manager was able to find local versions of the dependencies from directories included in my LD_LIBARY_PATH environment variable. This deps.jl file is not present in any of the problematic package deps directories. Has something changed recently so that Julia no longer attempts to find local files to satisfy dependencies, and instead immediately tries to download them? Is there a way to force Julia to use the locally available dependencies? Am I asking the right question here?
Thanks very much for any help with this. --Peter
