#21130: Cleaning fileserver.sagemath.org for optional packages
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Reporter: vdelecroix | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-7.3
Component: packages: optional | Resolution:
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Comment (by leif):
Replying to [comment:11 vdelecroix]:
> Replying to [comment:10 leif]:
> > Replying to [comment:8 dmuthiah]:
> > > Replying to [comment:6 leif]:
> > > I also consider the current packaging system as very bad. But this
ticket is about cleaning the websites mentioned in the description. And I
think cleaning is a good step forward.
> >
> > It's not the ''website'' that's broken, it's `sage --optional`, `sage
--experimental` etc. We should fix '''that''', and not just try to hide
the problem by more or less randomly deleting or moving some stuff.
>
> What do you suggest to fix them?
What I said, fix the function showing optional/experimental packages.
Start with `build/pkgs/*` (as we do in `configure`), and if we at all
still want to list legacy spkgs as well, only show those from `spkg/*` on
files.sagemath.org that are ''not'' in the local repo (`build/pkgs/`).
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