Does `sage -upgrade` upgrade the packages as well?

[rickhg12hs]

Does `sage -upgrade` upgrade the packages as well?

If not, what's the most efficient way to upgrade all packages to the latest release?

Is this bullet from Sage Docs still acuurate?

• --upgrade [url] – download, build and install standard packages from given url. If url not given, automatically selects a suitable mirror. If url=’ask’, it lets you select the mirror.

[rickhg12hs]

In case it makes a difference:

$ ./sage -v
SageMath version 7.6, Release Date: 2017-03-25

[Dima Pasechnik]

IIRC, --upgrade is broken for years already, and should be removed.

If you need to upgrade a source installation, use git; the corresponding to the pulled version packages

will be automatically upgraded, apart from "old style" ones, that are not upgraded any more anyway.

A binary installation cannot be updated using --upgrade at all, I think.

[Zachary Gershkoff]

How does one upgrade with git? Is it enough to pull the master or develop branch?

[Dima Pasechnik]

With master or develop, one should be all set. Just rebuild (./configure && make)
Sometimes

make doc-clean

would be needed,
in rare cases,

make distclean

is the only way forward.