William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Jason Grout > <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >>> (3) Any changes or customizations the user makes anywhere to their >>> sage install will be *deleted*. >>> >>> I think (3) is perhaps the biggest issue. >> >> I think emphasizing that this is a binary upgrade and *only* works to >> overwrite your current sage directory to an exact copy of a fresh binary >> build would be sufficient. > > Note, moreover, that if the users installs *any* optional packages, > these are all deleted too. > >> Note that doing the rsync (to a copy of your current sage directory) is >> no different than downloading the binary and untarring it, but >> presumably it is quite a bit faster and requires less bandwidth. > > It is no different assuming you didn't make any changes at all. And > of course, Mike's right -- it costs a lot more from a bandwidth > perspective....
Yes, the processing cost on the server is something I hadn't considered. That would probably make this not an option on a wide scale. Well, it was an idea, anyway... Jason -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
