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

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