"sage -upgrade" to 4.1.2 results in issue with symbolic link and ecl

[williamstein]

when doing an upgrade:

ln: target `ecl' is not a directory
Failed to create ecl library symbolic link ... exiting

real    1m55.950s
user    1m38.540s
sys     0m12.430s

CC: @haraldschilly

Component: build

Author: William Stein

Reviewer: Minh Van Nguyen

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/7213

[williamstein]

comment:2

The fixed spkg is here (it's a 3-character change).

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/patches/ecl-9.8.4-20090913cvs.p3.spkg

[sagetrac-mvngu]

comment:4

Both of the following cases worked OK:

• Replace the ECL spkg of Sage 4.1.2 with the above updated spkg. Make a new source tarball and compile that new tarball from scratch. That works OK.
• From Sage 4.1.1, upgrade to this new source tarball with the above ECL spkg. This also works fine. The original problem with upgrading from Sage 4.1.1 is now gone.

Positive review.

[sagetrac-mvngu]

Author: William Stein

[sagetrac-mvngu]

Reviewer: Minh Van Nguyen

[sagetrac-mvngu]

comment:5

This can be closed now. The updated ECL spkg is up in the standard spkg repository on sagemath.org and has been mirrored out. See

http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/sagemath/spkg/standard/ecl-9.8.4-20090913cvs.p3.spkg

07:39 < mvngu> schilly: But you should note ticket #7213.
07:40 < mvngu> schilly: If people upgrade to Sage 4.1.2 and they have problem
               with ECL, then ticket #7213
07:40 < mvngu> is the answer.
07:40 < mvngu> schilly: I just gave it a postive review.
07:41 < mvngu> schilly: So the standard packages respository on sagemath.org
               should have that updated ECL spkg.
07:41 < mvngu> schilly: Otherwise upgrade would result in a path error with ECL.
07:42 < schilly> mhm, ok ...
07:42 < schilly> if it is updated in the usual place, it will be on the mirrors
07:43 < mvngu> schilly: I mean update the standard spkg on sagemath.org with
               that ECL spkg, and mirror out this updated spkg.
07:43 < schilly> ok, filename is the same
07:43 < schilly> yes, just looked at www-files/packages/standard ... it's the
                 same
07:44 < mvngu> schilly: It says ".p3"?
07:44 < schilly> http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/sagemath/spkg/standard/
07:45 < mvngu> schilly: cool.
07:45 < schilly> ;)
07:45 < mvngu> schilly: Maybe wstein took care of updating that repo.
07:46 < schilly> he copied over to the usual place
                 (www-files/packages/standard) and that's all he has to do
07:46 < schilly> then he mirrored it together with the new source
07:46 < schilly> or i did it when i checked the mirror-ing earlier this day
07:47 < schilly> so, it's already on the servers
07:47 < mvngu> That's good to know.
07:48 < schilly> the only thing i don't understand is, why the source tarball 
                 of 4.1.1 is newer than the newer one for 4.1.2
07:48 < schilly> probably some copy-activity or replacement. i'll move 4.1.1 to 
                 the older files anyways