[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 wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dr. David Kirkby

[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 There were problems in the past with the pretty old and outdated tar on Mac OS X 10.4.11.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 is used, so

[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 david.kir...@onetel.net 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 There were problems in the past with the pretty old and outdated tar on Mac OS X 10.4.11.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