On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:06 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 22, 2:57 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:54 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Nov 22, 2:24 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> mabshoff wrote: >> >> > <SNIP> >> >> >> I have a system wide sage install owned by root in /usr/local/sage. >> >> I always upgrade the install as root. And most of the time >> >> I think of doing the chmod. >> >> >> See the rich history of this install! >> >> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] installed]# ls sage-* >> >> > sage-1.5.1.2 sage-1.8.2.1 sage-2.10.3 sage-2.4 sage-2.5.3 >> >> > sage-2.8.13 sage-2.8.4.1 sage-2.8.9 sage-3.0.5 >> >> > sage-1.5.3 sage-1.9 sage-2.10.4 sage-2.4.1 sage-2.6 >> >> > sage-2.8.14 sage-2.8.4.2 sage-2.9 sage-3.0.6 >> >> > sage-1.6 sage-2.0 sage-2.11 sage-2.4.1.2 sage-2.7 >> >> > sage-2.8.15 sage-2.8.5 sage-2.9.1.1 sage-3.1 >> >> > sage-1.6.1 sage-2.1 sage-2.1.3 sage-2.4.2 sage-2.7.3 >> >> > sage-2.8.2 sage-2.8.5.1 sage-2.9.2 sage-3.1.1 >> >> > sage-1.7 sage-2.10 sage-2.1.3.1 sage-2.5 sage-2.8 >> >> > sage-2.8.3 sage-2.8.6 sage-3.0 sage-3.1.2 >> >> > sage-1.7.1 sage-2.1.0.1 sage-2.1.4 sage-2.5.0.2 sage-2.8.10 >> >> > sage-2.8.3.3 sage-2.8.7 sage-3.0.2 sage-3.1.4 >> >> > sage-1.8 sage-2.10.1 sage-2.2 sage-2.5.1 sage-2.8.11 >> >> > sage-2.8.3.6 sage-2.8.8 sage-3.0.3 sage-3.2 >> >> > sage-1.8.1 sage-2.10.2 sage-2.3 sage-2.5.2 sage-2.8.12 >> >> > sage-2.8.4 sage-2.8.8.1 sage-3.0.4 >> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] installed]# >> >> > Wow - *70* Sage upgrades on the same install. I guess this would make >> > it one of the older installs around :) >> >> It could very well be the older actively used sage install around. My >> oldest is the system-wide one on sage.math, which only goes back to >> sage-2.3 (but Jaap's goes back to sage-1.6!). Mine's been upgraded 64 >> times: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/s/spkg/installed$ ls -1 sage-*|wc -l >> 64 > > Well, technically that is 63 upgrades :) > >> My spkg/archive directory is pretty big: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/s/spkg$ du -sch archive/ >> 566M archive/ >> 566M total >> >> All that stuff can be safely deleted. It probably should be deleted by >> default these days -- it's just where old stuff from spkg/standard (say) >> goes during upgrades. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/s/spkg$ rm -rf archive/* > > Or it should truncate the no longer used spkgs to zero bytes. We > already have a ticket to do so, but I can't find it right now.
No, it shouldn't do that. It should just delete them. There's no reason to truncate them to 0 bytes. Am I missing something? What did you have in mind? -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
