Add support for "huge" packages

[jdemeyer]

Apparently, there is a list of ​huge packages. But these packages are not automatically searched when doing sage -i:

jdemeyer@tamiyo:/usr/local/src/sage-5.9.beta5$ ./sage -i stein-watkins-ecdb.spkg
Attempting to download package stein-watkins-ecdb
>>> Checking online list of optional packages.
[.]
>>> Checking online list of experimental packages.
[.]
>>> Checking online list of standard packages.
[.]
>>> Checking online list of archive packages.
[.]
Error: could not find a package matching stein-watkins-ecdb in http://www.sagemath.org/packages

We should

1. add server-side support to make the page look like the other package pages.
2. change the spkg/bin/sage-spkg script to support these packages.

Apply 14538_spkg_huge.patch​ to SAGE_ROOT

[jdemeyer]

This works now:

$ export SAGE_SERVER='http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/sagemath/'
$ ./sage -i 4ti2
Attempting to download package 4ti2
>>> Checking online list of optional packages.
[.]
>>> Found 4ti2-1.3.2.p1
>>> Downloading http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/sagemath/spkg/optional/4ti2-1.3.2.p1.spkg.
...
$ ./sage -i stein-watkins-ecdb
Attempting to download package stein-watkins-ecdb
>>> Checking online list of optional packages.
[.]
>>> Checking online list of experimental packages.
[.]
>>> Checking online list of standard packages.
[.]
>>> Checking online list of huge packages.
[.]
>>> Found stein-watkins-ecdb
>>> Downloading http://www.sagemath.org/spkg/huge/stein-watkins-ecdb.spkg.
...
$ ./sage --info stein-watkins-ecdb
Attempting to get on-line info for package stein-watkins-ecdb
>>> Checking online list of optional packages.
[.]
>>> Checking online list of experimental packages.
[.]
>>> Checking online list of standard packages.
[.]
>>> Checking online list of huge packages.
[.]
>>> Found stein-watkins-ecdb
= stein-watkins-ecdb =

[vbraun]

Thanks, looks good to me!

[leif]

I don't like the hardcoding of www.sagemath.org for huge spkgs.

Everyone is free to "mirror" whatever he/she likes, and especially for huge spkgs [unfortunately still manually] choosing an (alternate) near/fast server certainly makes even more sense.

(I know one could still specify the full URL to the spkg and just do sage -i <URL>, but that was possible before anyway.)

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Is there at all a way (i.e., an option to sage) to list all available/archive[d]/huge spkgs?

IMHO sage --optional (which I don't like anyway, just like --experimental, so I wouldn't like sage --huge either) should [now] list huge spkgs as well, of course with a remark (or as a separate list/category).

[dimpase]

test, please ignore

[leif]

Replying to dimpase:

test, please ignore

done