Use "tar", not "cp -pPRL", to copy files in sage-bdist

[jdemeyer]

After unpacking a binary built using #6495, the various files doc/en/reference/MODULE/conf.py, which are all supposed to by symlinks to doc/en/reference/conf_sub.py, are copies of that file instead, and the hg repo is not clean. So I'm marking this as a blocker.

Related: #14166.

Apply attachment: 14236_bdist.patch local/bin.

CC: @jhpalmieri

Component: scripts

Author: Jeroen Demeyer

Reviewer: John Palmieri

Merged: sage-5.8.beta4

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14236

[jdemeyer]

Author: Jeroen Demeyer

[jhpalmieri]

comment:3

The patch looks okay to me, and it seems to work, although I have a bit more testing to do.

Unrelated to this patch, but related to sage-bdist: running sage-bdist does not produce the link as given by ln -s local/share "$SAGE_ROOT/data" in spkg/install. Can that cause problems?

[jdemeyer]

comment:4

Replying to @jhpalmieri:

Unrelated to this patch, but related to sage-bdist: running sage-bdist does not produce the link as given by ln -s local/share "$SAGE_ROOT/data" in spkg/install. Can that cause problems?

Unrelated indeed, but that should also be fixed.

[jhpalmieri]

comment:5

Attachment: 14236_bdist.patch.gz

This looks good to me. I'll try it out on OpenSolaris just to make sure. By the way, is there a good reason why the symbolic link data is not in the root repo?

[jhpalmieri]

Reviewer: John Palmieri

[jdemeyer]

comment:7

I also added a check in the release management script that the bdist repositories are clean (i.e. hg status shows nothing). This would prevent this problem in the future.

[jdemeyer]

Merged: sage-5.8.beta4