Thanks for all the comments. Until we have dealt with the issue of moving after building, I'll just build from scratch.
John On 31 January 2014 11:19, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "sage-release" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-release" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
