Apologies. Wrong thread. Was meant for Bug with sagemath-upstream-binary 7.0~aimsppa1~qa2 on Ubuntu 14.04
by Marc Tardif On 4 February 2016 at 22:48, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: > Hi > > Yes. Thank you. I place a small role in Sage, thanks to all the upstream > developers. > > The PPA is not a real package built from source, but a binary package > copying files over form an upstream binary built on Sage's buildfarm. > > Something about Sage's build process which I don't understand makes it > extremely hard to debianize, but also hard enough for me to just to copy > into place. > > Regards, > Jan > > > > On 4 February 2016 at 17:00, Graham Gerrard <graham.gerr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Have sorted out most of the problem here. >> >> (a) Installation time for 7.0 only 7 minutes not 30, sorry (went for a >> cup of tea); >> >> (b) Solution to installing database_gap is to the save the compiled >> version in my own tar file and reinstall in the next version from there. >> Works OK on test. As I use several more GAP packages, all are now >> installed in a single tar file and I expect future installations to be >> suitably rapid. >> >> Graham >> >> >> On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:43:33 UTC, Graham Gerrard wrote: >>> >>> Recent installation of Linux binaries on Ubuntu now takes much longer >>> than a few versions ago. Binary unpacks, no problem. After linking to the >>> new version in /usr/local/bin, the first run of sage initiates a large >>> amount of time consuming checking and updating, used to be a minute or 2, >>> now at least 30. All OK, after a suitable wait. >>> >>> Installation of an additional package (in my case, database_gap) using >>> "sage -i database_gap", initiates another automated collection of (>500) >>> steps, which eventually results in a successfully install. Similar wait. >>> Again successful. >>> >>> I can install a similar gap database by unpacking an older version, e.g. >>> database_gap-4.7.7.tar.bz2 and copying the bits into the right place in the >>> GAP directory. Very much quicker (and seems to work). >>> >>> Is this longer installation time to be expected in the future? Am I >>> doing something wrong? >>> >>> Graham >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > .~. > /V\ Jan Groenewald > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za > ^^-^^ > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
