Hi
Perhaps someone on sage devel can help. Specifically this is called:
0 jan@snapperkob:~/src/sagemath-optional/sagemath-optional-6.1/debian$grep
-A1 SPKG postinst
for SPKG in /usr/lib/sagemath/upstream/*; do
HOME=/root/ DOT_SAGE=/root/.sage /usr/bin/sage -i
${SPKG#/usr/lib/sagemath/upstream/}|cut -d\- -f1,1;
done;
Can another variable besides HOME and DOT_SAGE be set for where the
optional packages put things?
Of course postinst runs as root, and usually sage -i should NOT be run as
root. sagemath-optional was really for personal use, and I might
discontinue it if this is not cleanly solvable. Perhaps that can be changed
to su - but it would probably require adding a sagemath user which is a
whole bunch of extra work. Installing sagemath-upstream-binary does not
compile anything as root, it copies the compiled binaries into standard
places, with files owned by root., which is normal for many binaries.
It will not solve the problem that once the sagemath-upstream-binary is
installed, and a user runs sage -i as root, then the same problem might
follow, unless sage -i was patched to need a --force and to have a warning
when run as root.
Regards,
Jan
On 24 February 2014 17:33, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
>
> Can you give the exact version please?
>
> This seems to be sagemath-optional, which simply calls sage -i
> database-stuff, which might mean I could just set a path before sage -i, or
> there is an upstream problem with those optioneal packages.
>
> The second one I think is also related to that.
>
> The PPA might not be compatible with optional packages, yet this might be
> fixed easily.
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
>
>
>
> On 24 February 2014 17:26, Thierry Dumont <tdum...@math.univ-lyon1.fr>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have juste installed 6.1 with the Ubuntu ppa on my lab's machines...:
>>
>> apt-get nstall sagemath-upstream-binary sagemath-optional
>>
>> (we are in LTS, Ubuntu 12.04);
>>
>> The directories:
>>
>> sloane/
>> jones/
>>
>> are installed in / !!! (yes: i say /)
>>
>> idem if I do:
>>
>> sage -i sage-mode
>>
>> a directory emacs/ is created in / with sage-mode and related files in it.
>>
>> This is a least not suitable ....
>>
>> Yours
>> t.
>>
>>
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