>
> The way I install asdf 3.0.2.25 for trying to use it in production is:
>
>  1. git pull into my local asdf directory.
>  2. make (to make a single asdf.lisp file in asdf/build/)
>  3. copy this to quicklisp/asdf.lisp
>  4. rm -r quicklisp/cache
>  5. edit quicklisp/setup.lisp to say:
>      (defvar *required-asdf-version* "3.0.2.25")
>  6. copy the uiop/ directory from local asdf/ into quicklisp/local-projects/
>  7. restart the Lisp
>  8. load quicklisp/setup.lisp and (ql:register-local-projects)
>
> Having done all this, the (asdf:system-source-directory :uiop) still returns
> nil, and uiop is not ending up in my monofasls which depend on it.
>
> Am I doing it wrong?
>

It looks right, or at least defensible.
Did you copy the contents of version.lisp-expr in uiop/
or a symlink that's now dangling? That could make a difference,
though I would expect a more noisy failure.