#8523: Optional package p_group_cohomology-1.2 fails to install on Solaris 10
SPARC
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: SimonKing
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.4
Component: optional packages | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
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Comment(by SimonKing):
Replying to [comment:5 dimpase]:
> calling spkg-install directly is certainly NOT the way it is meant to be
installed.
> It is meant to be installed either from within sage by calling
install_package, or by calling
> sage -i (or sage -f) at the shell prompt.
I think we talk about totally different situations. You seem to talk about
version 1.2, which is published and should certainly be installable by a
user doing sage -i.
But IMO, sage -i is the way to go '''only if the package is finished'''. I
am talking about the yet-to-be-published version 2.0. I am still not
finished with all details of the new algorithms and documentation, and it
has not being packaged yet.
I will certainly not do sage -i while developing new algorithms. Namely,
before doing sage -i, one has to have a spkg. Thus, I would have to do
sage -pkg after each tiny little change, 20-50 times a day! That's clumsy!
Moreover, sage -i should be equivalent to unpacking the spkg (well, it is
unpacked since I didn't pack my development version yet) and calling spkg-
install (plus, perhaps, spkg-check) in the sage environment. So, if spkg-
install works (which it does for me) then sage -i should work as well.
So, testing whether sage -i still works will only be the last step before
publishing version 2.0.
> Please check that this works for you now, too.
You seem to talk about version 1.2. This version ''did'' work, on quite a
broad range of platforms. I never had the problem that you describe.
In fact, I just tested (sage 4.3.4 on Opensuse; you said that the problem
is not platform specific), and sage -f p_group_cohomology-1.2.spkg
(without your changes) came easily beyond the point where the existence of
database_gap is tested. Then, I interrupted with Ctrl-C.
So, can you please tell me how I can reproduce the problem that you met?
> you better just grab the spkg linked above, and tell Minh (and/or the
release manager) to upgrade the sagemath.org repository
> using this file. There this diff is already applied and the changes
reflected in SPKG.txt
I don't plan to re-publish version 1.2, unless I can reproduce the
problem. But I will pull it into version 2.0.
> and in the Mercurial:
> the repository was off in your spkg, I had to do a hg add and a hg
commit;
WHAT?
Sorry for shouting, but certainly the repository was not off. I don't know
if you ever did sage -pkg, but it gives an unmistakable warning if the
repository is not fine.
That you had to do hg commit is clear. But certainly spkg-install was in
the repository. So, why hg add?
> I aslo created .hgignore to ignore src/db files (having huge files in hg
isn't good, and you have an online database with these, anyway).
Here I am not so sure, but I thought that I did not include src/db in the
repository, for this reason. BTW, the online database does ''not'' contain
the cohomology rings for the groups of order 64 -- these are only provided
by the database in the package.
> This way, I could give it a positive review (pretending you did it
all:-)).
Now I am totally confused.
First of all, I think that this ticket is a "wontfix", because it will
soon be superseded by another ticket that I will open when I publish
version 2.0.
Moreover, it is about a problem that I can not reproduce.
Then you say you will give a positive review -- to changes that you did
yourself?
Best regards,
Simon
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