On Nov 29, 2007, at 3:17 PM, mabshoff wrote:
> On Nov 30, 12:11 am, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:41 AM, joel wrote: >> >> The tarball seems to be the culprit. I can't see how this will work >> (from "tar tvzf"): >> >> lrwxrwxrwx was/daemon 0 2007-11-21 16:30 sage-2.8.13-i386- >> Darwin/local/LIB -> lib > > So can we nuke that symbolic link somehow? This should work: - uncompress the tarball - tar -f <tarball> --delete sage-2.8.13-i386-Darwin/local/LIB - compress again >> How was this built? Is someone using case-sensitivity on Mac OS X? >> Tsk tsk tsk... > > :) - William rolled the tarball. I believe he build that binary on > fermat which is different from the box he used to roll tarballs on. We > don't have admin control on fermat - at least I don't - and it seems > unlikely that we can fix the filesystem to be case-insensitive again. For sure you won't get away with changing the sensitivity of the filesystem :-} (without a backup/restore process). You just have to beware of the trials of case-insensitivity. Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -------- Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
