#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:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by dimpase):
Replying to [comment:6 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.
>
Sure, I do talk about 1.2 (and I was baffled by what you wrote). And 1.2
is broken, it does not install on any Sage 4.3.4 I have (as I was busy
with updating gap-related spkgs and cvxopt spkg, I have a large supply
presently :-)).
For instance, one compiled from source on boxen.math
{{{
d...@boxen:~/sage/sage-4.3.4/spkg/standard$ ls database_g*
database_gap-4.4.12.p0.spkg
}}}
ok, so SmallGroups are there, but I cannot install the package (I just
copied the canonical 1.2 version to /tmp)
{{{
../../sage -f /tmp/p_group_cohomology-1.2.spkg
[...]
***************************************************
/bin/ls: cannot access database_gap-*.spkg: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: cannot access database_gap-*.spkg: No such file or directory
Failed to find SmallGroups library. Please install the database_gap spkg
real 0m0.575s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.020s
sage: An error occurred while installing p_group_cohomology-1.2
}}}
> 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.
Please see above. I don't have access to SUSE systems, but it fails on a
range of Ubuntu and Debian Linuxes, as well as on Solaris (Sparc) and on
MacOSX 10.5 (PPC), all of these with Sage 4.3.4.
>
> So, can you please tell me how I can reproduce the problem that you met?
Try it on sage.math or boxen.math and see for yourself, if you like.
>
> > 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?
as I explained in another reply, to bring it in line to what you wrote in
SPKG.txt.
By the way, I was pointed out few times by spkg reviewers that having
hg-"?"-marked files in the spkg is not good, and they insisted on fixing
this.
>
> > 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.
OK, sorry about this.
>
> > This way, I could give it a positive review (pretending you did it
all:-)).
>
> Now I am totally confused.
My apologies. As usual, the joke is lost in electronic communications... I
meant to say I explained it to you all, leaving you almost nothing to
figure out, so it would be a breeze to give it a positive review.
>
> 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.
well, 2.0 is still at least weeks away, and then reviewing, etc etc.
Meanwhile there is a broken spkg on the list of optional packages, and the
fix is ready. So, please, please, let us fix it, and be done with.
Best,
Dima
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