#5825: sage -i $FOO.spkg should abort cleanly when write permissions are lacking
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Reporter: mabshoff | Owner: mabshoff
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.10
Component: scripts | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: Jeroen Demeyer | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by jhpalmieri):
Is it worth checking permissions before attempting to download an spkg?
{{{
$ sage -i pybtex
tee:
/Users/palmieri/Desktop/Sage_stuff/sage_builds/sage-5.10.beta4/logs/install.log:
Permission denied
tee:
/Users/palmieri/Desktop/Sage_stuff/sage_builds/sage-5.10.beta4/logs/pkgs/pybtex.log:
Permission denied
Attempting to download package pybtex
>>> Checking online list of optional packages.
[.]
>>> Found pybtex-20120618
>>> Downloading
http://www.sagemath.org/spkg/optional/pybtex-20120618.spkg.
/Users/palmieri/Desktop/Sage_stuff/sage_builds/sage-5.10.beta4/spkg/bin
/sage-spkg: line 354: pybtex-20120618.tmp: Permission denied
Error: failed to download package pybtex-20120618
}}}
This is not as nice an error message as you added in other situations:
{{{
$ sage -f gcc
tee:
/Users/palmieri/Desktop/Sage_stuff/sage_builds/sage-5.10.beta4/logs/install.log:
Permission denied
tee:
/Users/palmieri/Desktop/Sage_stuff/sage_builds/sage-5.10.beta4/logs/pkgs/gcc.log:
Permission denied
Found package gcc in spkg/standard/gcc-4.7.3.p0.spkg
Error: no write access to build directory
/Users/palmieri/Desktop/Sage_stuff/sage_builds/sage-5.10.beta4/spkg/build.
}}}
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