#14055: Fix sage-cleaner
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: leif
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-5.9
Component: scripts | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: John Palmieri, Leif
Leonhardy, Volker Braun
Authors: Jeroen Demeyer | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by jhpalmieri):
Volker's patch seems to work for me.
A slight problem with changing how Sage processes the hostname: for me, at
least, the directory `DOT_SAGE/temp/HOSTNAME` is filled with old
directories which were never properly cleaned up. On my machines,
`'HOSTNAME'` is not a valid key in `os.environ`, so the hyphens have been
replaced by underscores. If we change sage-cleaner (etc.) to not do the
replacement, we will start to use a new HOSTNAME directory, so the old one
won't get cleaned up.
On one hand, this is minor, and perhaps people should clean up their own
`DOT_SAGE/temp` directories. On the other hand, the directory is polluted
because of a bug in Sage, so maybe we should clean it up for them. So is
it worth applying a patch like [comment:67 my suggestion above] for Sage
5.9, and then in Sage 5.10, applying Volker's changes?
I'm curious: why is `'HOSTNAME'` sometimes in `os.environ` and sometimes
not?
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/14055#comment:71>
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