#10993: Update eclib to 20120115
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    Reporter:  cremona          |         Owner:  cremona                       
  
        Type:  enhancement      |        Status:  needs_work                    
  
    Priority:  major            |     Milestone:  sage-5.0                      
  
   Component:  packages         |    Resolution:                                
  
    Keywords:  elliptic curves  |   Work_issues:                                
  
    Upstream:  N/A              |      Reviewer:  Frithjof Schulze, Jeroen 
Demeyer
      Author:  John Cremona     |        Merged:                                
  
Dependencies:  #11354           |  
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Changes (by drkirkby):

  * status:  needs_review => needs_work


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:39 jdemeyer]:
 > I found a race condition in the eclib installer:
 > at various places you have things like
 > {{{
 > chmod og+r *
 > }}}

 As I found out to my cost once, that sort of thing can be very dangerous,
 as ".." (i.e. the parent directory) is included in '*' too. So:

 {{{
 $ chown -R drkirkby *
 }}}

 made all files owned by me, including those of the parent directory, and
 all its sub-directories.

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