On 9/13/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 11, 10:22 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/11/07, Kate Minola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > The circular link of python and python2.5 in local/lib/python2.5 > > > makes it difficult to change ownership when installing the binary. > > > > > % pwd > > > /home/kate/temp/sage-2.8.4.1-debian64-x86_64-x86_64-Linux/local/lib/python2.5 > > > % ls -al python python2.5 > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 kate magma 6 Sep 11 15:46 python -> python > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 kate magma 9 Sep 11 15:46 python2.5 -> python2.5 > > > % > > > > > Is there a good reason why these are here? > > > > This is definitely a bug. Thanks for reporting it! > > > > This is now trac ticket #640: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/640 > > Hello, > > I posted a new python spkg that fixes the issue at > > http://fsmath.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/~mabshoff/sage/python-2.5.1.p7.spkg > > The difference is "ln -s python-2.5/ python" vs the older "ln -s > python-2.5 python" in p6. Notice the missing trailing "/". I am not > sure if that isn't a problem on OSX, so can somebody please test. >
Thanks. I had to make some additional very minor tweaks so that if people upgrade the circular reference is also removed. I've posted the result at http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/python-2.5.1.p7.spkg and tested it. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
