#9418: Add GNU patch 2.5.9 as a standard package.
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: GeorgSWeber
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.6.1
Component: build | Keywords: patch spkg
Author: David Kirkby | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Old description:
> As discussed here:
>
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sage-
> devel/browse_thread/thread/c566520374106df3
>
> [http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/ GNU patch] is to be added as a
> standard package to Sage, to allow the use of 'patch' to be used to make
> patches, rather than to us 'cp' as now.
>
> A new package may be found here
>
> http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/patch-2.5.9.spkg
>
> In order to test this spkg, you could also try installing a new Sphinx
> spkg using ''patch'':
> [http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/sphinx-1.0.4.p2.spkg]
> (there is a corresponding .p1 using ''cp'', see #10118 for the Sphinx
> upgrade).
>
> Once this is done, the [http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/ Sage
> Developers Guide] will need to be updated to reflect a new method to
> create patches. A separate ticket #9419 has been opened for that.
>
> '''NOTE to developers: do not yet create spkg's using patch, because
> there is absolutely no guarantee that this spkg will be in the next
> version of Sage (even if it has been merged in an alpha version).'''
> Since this is a new {{{spkg}}}, we need to test it a lot more thoroughly
> than a simple library patch.
New description:
As discussed here:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sage-
devel/browse_thread/thread/c566520374106df3
[http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/ GNU patch] is to be added as a
standard package to Sage, to allow the use of 'patch' to be used to make
patches, rather than to us 'cp' as now.
A new package may be found here
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/older/patch-2.5.9.spkg
In order to test this spkg, you could also try installing a new Sphinx
spkg using ''patch'':
[http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/sphinx-1.0.4.p2.spkg]
(there is a corresponding .p1 using ''cp'', see #10118 for the Sphinx
upgrade).
Once this is done, the [http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/ Sage
Developers Guide] will need to be updated to reflect a new method to
create patches. A separate ticket #9419 has been opened for that.
'''NOTE to developers: do not yet create spkg's using patch, because there
is absolutely no guarantee that this spkg will be in the next version of
Sage (even if it has been merged in an alpha version).''' Since this is a
new {{{spkg}}}, we need to test it a lot more thoroughly than a simple
library patch.
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Comment(by drkirkby):
I've checked the version at
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/older/patch-2.5.9.spkg
installs OK on
* !OpenSolaris 06/2009 (my machine hawk).
* Solaris 10 SPARC (t2.math)
* Solaris 10 x86 (fulvia on skynet)
* Linux (sage.math)
* OS X 10.6 (bsd.math)
I can confirm that 2.6.1 did fail to install on Solaris 10 on SPARC
(t2.math)
Dave
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