Hi Jason,

I wasn't aware of the "ditto" command, thanks for that!

The -upgrade was a lot faster, indeed. It was done over lunch.

Cheers,
Stan

Jason Grout wrote:
> Stan Schymanski wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> cp does not have the -a option on my mac and cp -pR leads to the 
>> following error message after startup:
>>     
>
>
> Oh, that's right.  On a mac, the "ditto" command is nice.
>
>
>   
>> "Warning: something went wrong updating the easy-install.pth file."
>>
>> However, this time no other problems occurred and I was able to run the 
>> notebook server from the new directory, so I proceeded with running 
>> ./sage -upgrade. Another warning message came up:
>>
>> "WARNING: This is a source/based upgrade, which could take hours, fail 
>> and render your Sage install useless!!"
>>
>> It's not a problem since I'm running it on the Sage copy now, but 
>> 'hours' is what a fresh compilation from source would take anyway, so 
>> would I possibly be better off installing the whole thing from source? 
>> I'll see how long it takes.
>>     
>
>
> Well, IIRC, it won't have to compile spkgs that didn't change.  However, 
> for every spkg that has been updated, you will have to compile that 
> spkg.  Typically it's much faster than compiling fresh from source.
>
> Jason
>
>
> >
>   


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