How does Sage currently decide which optional packages are installed? Because it gets it wrong with database_gap with sage-6.2.beta8. I install the package successfully, but it is still listed under not installed optional packages.
salvus@salvus-base: ~ salvus@salvus-base:~$ sage -f database_gap Found local metadata for database_gap-4.7.4 Found local sources at /usr/local/sage/sage-6.2.beta8/upstream/database_gap-4.7.4.tar.bz2 Checksum: 6e5f63df55881a509076c4ecbd02c7afc8f81ef9 vs 6e5f63df55881a509076c4ecbd02c7afc8f81ef9 database_gap-4.7.4 ==================================================== Setting up build directory for database_gap-4.7.4 Finished set up **************************************************** Host system: Linux salvus-base 3.13.0-19-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 24 02:36:06 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux **************************************************** C compiler: gcc C compiler version: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.8/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.8 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.8 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libmudflap --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) **************************************************** ******************************************************************** Installing optional GAP databases, which may not be open source. Installing GAP packages to /usr/local/sage/sage-6.2.beta8/local/lib/ [?1034hgap-4.7.4/... Please see SPKG.txt for license details. ******************************************************************** Installed small group database. Installed prim database. Installed trans database. Installed tomlib database. real 0m23.394s user 0m13.939s sys 0m3.422s Successfully installed database_gap-4.7.4 Deleting temporary build directory /usr/local/sage/sage-6.2.beta8/local/var/tmp/sage/build/database_gap-4.7.4 Finished installing database_gap-4.7.4.spkg salvus@salvus-base: /usr/local/sage/sage-6.2.beta8 salvus@salvus-base:/usr/local/sage/sage-6.2.beta8$ sage -optional Using SAGE Server http://www.sagemath.org/packages *********************************** *** optional Packages *** *********************************** INSTALLED: biopython-1.61 brian-1.4.1.p0 cbc-2.8.1.p0 chomp-20130518.p1 cluster_seed-1.0 coxeter3-1.1 cryptominisat-2.9.6 cunningham_tables-1.0 database_jones_numfield-v4 database_kohel-20060803 database_odlyzko_zeta database_pari-20130516 database_symbolic_data-20070206 gnuplotpy-1.8 guppy-0.1.8 kash3-2008-07-31.p0 lie-2.2.2.p5 lrs-4.2b.p1 nauty-25 normaliz-2.8.p0 nose-1.1.2 nzmath-1.1.0 p_group_cohomology-2.1.4.p1 phc-2.3.65.p0 pybtex-20120618 pycryptoplus-20100809-git pyx-0.10 pyzmq-2.1.11.p1 qhull-2010.1 zeromq-3.2.0.p0 NOT INSTALLED: 4ti2-1.6 autotools-20121217 beautifulsoup-3.2.1 benzene-20130630 buckygen-1.0.p1 ccache-3.1.9 database_cremona_ellcurve-20121022 database_gap-4.6.4 ... ^ ---------- WHAT? -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.