Hi, I updated tar on sage.math to version 1.22 by building from source. I also updated rsync to the latest version (this was another request, offlist).
William On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:19 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> >> Georg S. Weber wrote: >>> As usual, >>> >>> tests are needed. There were problems in the past with the pretty old >>> and outdated "tar" on Mac OS X 10.4.11. As long as this continues to >>> work OK "out of the box", I'm fine with changes. Could you place >>> somewhere a "foobar.tar.bz2" where the "new" tar is used, so others >>> can check it out? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Georg >> >> I created the latest (version 1.22 GNU tar), using: >> >> $ ./configure DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT=POSIX >> >> It passes all tests >> >> ## ------------- ## >> ## Test results. ## >> ## ------------- ## >> >> 70 tests were successful. >> 7 tests were skipped. >> >> (Coincidently, 7 tests were also skipped on my Sun Ultra 27. My 3.33 GHz Xeon >> managed to beat sage.math by around 12 seconds, which made me feel good!). > > Try testing sage.math in /tmp or /scratch instead of /home (which is a > relatively slow NSF mount). > > > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
