The script can also be used in that case, just download it by hand and 
leave out the --url=...



On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 12:06:39 PM UTC-8, Emmanuel Charpentier 
wrote:
>
>
>
> Le mercredi 11 novembre 2015 16:58:35 UTC+1, Volker Braun a écrit :
>>
>> PS: with http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19470 updating packages would 
>> get much easier, just run
>>
>> sage --package update boost 1.58 --url=...
>>
>
> *VERY*  nice idea ! But it can't be applied to Boost, which is distributed 
> via @#!&! Sourceforge and therefore has no stable URL...
>
> I'll try to do that "à l'ancienne"...
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Emmanuel Charpentier
>
>
>> to download the tarball and update the relevant configuration files in 
>> Sage
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 7:48:26 AM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote:
>>>
>>> egrep -r boost src/sage
>>>
>>> Sage graphs also use boost
>>>
>>> If you need a newer version the go ahead and package it!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 4:06:21 AM UTC-8, Emmanuel 
>>> Charpentier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> I just discovered that Sage installs a Boost library (it's, curiously, 
>>>> called boost-cropped, but according to its SPKG.txt, currently contains 
>>>> all 
>>>> of Boost, without patches).
>>>>
>>>> The current version is 1.52. I discovered that this version is too old 
>>>> at least for the rstan package of R (a diabolically efficient MCMC 
>>>> sampler), which needs Boost>=1.58. See this thread on stan-users 
>>>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/stan-users/XygoXG0SoTM> for 
>>>> details.
>>>>
>>>> Hence two questions :
>>>>
>>>> 1) What in Sage uses Boost ?
>>>>
>>>> 2) Is someone maintaining it ?
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely yours,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Emmanuel Charpentier
>>>>
>>>

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