On Nov 2, 11:46 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:39 AM, mabshoff
<SNIP>
> > Ok, how about a script for the extcode.spkg that attaches each file to
> > a Magma session in case Magma is installed on the system?
>
> If we do that, somebody else will complain just as much or more
> about Sage starting up and running Magma as root, or something.
We can't make everybody happy I guess :)
> It could be done though. And it wouldn't require attaching each file -- all
> you have to do is put this line in the spkg-install:
>
> sage -c "magma('1')"
>
> That will run magma, which automatically attaches *all* of the
> magma code and generates the sig files, or it will go boom
> and give an error if there is no magma installed.
Nope, it doesn't:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/scratch/mabshoff/release-cycle/sage-3.2.alpha3$ ./sage -
c "magma('1')"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/scratch/mabshoff/release-cycle/sage-3.2.alpha3$ find
data/extcode/ -name "*.sig"
data/extcode/magma/sage/basic.sig
data/extcode/magma/latex/latex.sig
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/scratch/mabshoff/release-cycle/sage-3.2.alpha3
Only two out of the 12 Magma files in the data/extcode/magma directory
were loaded. Even when running all optional doctest only four or five
Magma files out of 12 are loaded.
> I'm not sure if we should do this though, since I recall getting numerous
> complaints over the years from people about Sage starting up and
> running as root "do stuff" during the install process, but I've never
> once before seen the complaint about magma and permissions that
> resulted in #4424. I'm guessing that people typically know precisely
> what to do in the situation of #4424 so that's what it isn't a problem
> (in fact, the reporter of #4424 knew precisely what to do).
>
> It's your call whether to add
>
> sage -c "magma('1')"
>
> to the spkg-install for extcode.
I don't care either way. Easiest would probably be to add an entry in
the FAQ for now and if people hit this problem regularly maybe we
should attempt to solve this problem again.
> -- William
Cheers,
Michael
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