Discussion related to cado-nfs

[Zimmermann Paul <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>]

       Paul,

> I tried to add another machine as a siever but didn't really understand
> the format of the mach_desc file and, in particular, the scope of the
> bindir declaration.  When cadofactor.pl restarted it tried to de-dup and
> purge the relations found so far but used the wrong path.  Instead of
> dying with an error "program not found" or similar, it deleted all the
> relation files.

we are aware of that bug:

https://gforge.inria.fr/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=13209&group_id=2065&atid=7442

It should be fixed in the new version of the cadofactor script that Alex is
currently designing.

The idea is that relations should not be deleted without an explicit
"YES" from the user.

Paul