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-patchbot option considered harmful to your Sage #35

Open rwst opened 10 years ago

rwst commented 10 years ago

Previous description was:

This issue is restricted to cases where patchbot was started with sage -patchbot. Just use python local/bin/patchbot/patchbot.py.

patchbot when started with sage -patchbot will clobber your Sage installation. patchbot discriminates between safe and unsafe tickets (the former basically change only files in src/). Unsafe tickets are supposed to be tested using installation of Sage in /tmp but that installation process not only reads from the base Sage directory (and so may not test changes done in /tmp) but, more importantly, installs many files and packages not into /tmp but back into original Sage.

This issue can be closed when the advice on http://patchbot.sagemath.org/ to use that command is removed.

rwst commented 10 years ago

It appears this issue can be resolved with http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/16390 and http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/16413