On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:18 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 26, 3:14 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I'm wondering why is it that > > rm -rf "$SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/$GAP/pkg/" > > mkdir "$SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/$GAP/pkg/" > > occurs in the spkg-install script for gap_packages*? > > Is there a reason why the old packages are deleted? > > Hi David, > > my guess would be that the in the past older GAP packages caused > problems when upgrading Sage. So the "burned earth policy" might fix > the issue, but that is obviously not convenient for people like you > who install packages on their own. We used to have a bunch of GAP > related doctest failures due to GAP workspaces hanging around, so > those are now nuked too on upgrade. But it might be possible that the > workspace clean up fix actually removes the need to nuke the pkg > directory. I assume William did the above "fix" a long time ago, so > maybe he can shed some light on this.
I have no idea. I'm OK with removing that line. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
