That ticket has this URL:
http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/malb/spkgs/libm4ri-20080514.p0.spkg
Have you always wanted to just do
sage -i http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/malb/spkgs/libm4ri-20080514.p0.spkg
and have it work? If so, referee my new patch:
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3204
:-)
-- William