Package installation on JuliaBox

[ghuba]

[ Possible connection with issue #440 ]

I recently tried to reinstall the packages Plots and PlotlyJS on JuliaBox and ran into some problems. Details are given in this post:

JuliaPlots/Plots.jl#459

Summary:

The packages fail to install properly because of some conflicts when precompiling files. The directory

/opt/julia_packages/.julia/lib/v0.4

was the culprit. The installation works with:

if length(Base.LOAD_CACHE_PATH) >= 3
    splice!(Base.LOAD_CACHE_PATH, 3)
end
Pkg.add("Plots")
Pkg.add("PlotlyJS")

The error is related to recompiling stale cache files, for example

Recompiling stale cache file /opt/julia_packages/.julia/lib/v0.4/

See JuliaPlots/Plots.jl#459 for details.

See also #338 for a related problem.

[ViralBShah]

For now, it is best not to install these packages, and use the pre-installed ones. @vtjnash has provided a bugfix that we expect to test and deploy this week.

JuliaLang/julia#18230

[ViralBShah]

Cc @tbreloff