[SM-Discuss] Proposal: gaze newer last_update

Seth Alan Woolley seth at positivism.org
Fri Jan 21 13:52:15 EST 2005


On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:59:49PM -0800, Andrew wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:29:32AM -0800, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > If you're going to do work on this, I think that we should make a 
> > distinction between last compile and last update.
> > 
> > With afrayedknot's new tablet support we can know the difference now and 
> > head -n 1 the tablet history entry to get a real newer date. 
> Well, theres no history per-se in the tablet, however things are stored
> based on the time their installation completed. So you could easily
> compare that timestamp with whenever the last system-update occurred.

I think I need to clarify:

spell imaginary-spell is added with version 1 in the distant past

spell imaginary-spell is updated with a security patch on day 1 to devel

on day 7 test grimoire is re-downloaded on computer-foo.

on day 7 imaginary-spell is recompiled via a sorcery rebuild
  (or maybe an update from version 0)

spell imaginary-spell is updated on day 14 to test with security patch

***problem cause*** The UPDATED value is listed as "day 1"

on day 20, computer-foo is updated. 

with UPDATED listed as day 1 on imaginary-spell and compile date is listed
  as day 7, imaginary-spell's security update is not triggered for recompile

I'm just hoping for some way to avoid that.  This also happens when 
scribe update is run a time significantly before an update, not just 
when we have lagged updates to the grimoire.

Seth

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