[sage-devel] Re: Should tar be updated on sage.math ?

2009-11-01 Thread Georg S. Weber
As usual, tests are needed. There were problems in the past with the pretty old and outdated "tar" on Mac OS X 10.4.11. As long as this continues to work OK "out of the box", I'm fine with changes. Could you place somewhere a "foobar.tar.bz2" where the "new" tar is used, so others can check it ou

[sage-devel] Re: Should tar be updated on sage.math ?

2009-11-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Georg S. Weber wrote: > As usual, > > tests are needed. There were problems in the past with the pretty old > and outdated "tar" on Mac OS X 10.4.11. As long as this continues to > work OK "out of the box", I'm fine with changes. Could you place > somewhere a "foobar.tar.bz2" where the "new" tar

[sage-devel] Re: Should tar be updated on sage.math ?

2009-11-01 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Georg S. Weber wrote: >> As usual, >> >> tests are needed. There were problems in the past with the pretty old >> and outdated "tar" on Mac OS X 10.4.11. As long as this continues to >> work OK "out of the box", I'm fine with changes. Co

[sage-devel] Re: Should tar be updated on sage.math ?

2009-11-02 Thread William Stein
Hi, I updated tar on sage.math to version 1.22 by building from source. I also updated rsync to the latest version (this was another request, offlist). William On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:19 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> >> Georg S. Weber