On 2014-01-31, John Cremona <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good!  Now here is a question I have been waiting to ask:
>
> We know know that it is Not A Good Idea to build Sage in one place and
> move it, so when I install Sage system-wode on the machines I
> administer, which I only do for full releases (not betas etc), I have
> been building it where I want it (in /usr/local/sage) and then
> switching /usr/local/bin/sage which is a symlink to point to the new
> version.
>
> Now with the new build system I could, but would prefer not to, build
> from scratch for this purpose, but would like to go in to my
> /usr/local/sage/ build, pull the new master and rebuild.  BUT if I do
> that then while the new version is building it will be unavailable to
> users, which is not ideal.
>
> Am I missing something simple?  What do other people who manage
> systems with several users do or plan to do?
make somewhere a symbolic link to the current system-wide Sage
installation, e.g. 
/usr/local/sage/current a symlink to 
/usr/local/sage/sage-6.0/

As well, make /usr/local/bin/sage a symlink to
/usr/local/sage/current/sage

Done!

Now you can happily build in /usr/local/sage/sage-6.1 and
at some point switch your /usr/local/sage/current to point to
/usr/local/sage/sage-6.1/

HTH,
Dima
>
> John
>
> On 30 January 2014 21:29, Harald Schilly <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Source tarball is here (to be uploaded to the mirrors):
>>
>> Cool! I've already started to move it to the mirrors.
>>
>> Harald
>>
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