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[Ryan Abrams <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>]

Actually, hold off on the whole thing people. It is not a happy camper 
if you do it without sustain.

If you want to upgrade, grab 
http://download.sourcemage.org/sorcery/sorcery-<branch>.tar.bz2 and run 
./install manually. The spells are fux0red.

-Ryan

p.s. Dont worry.. we will get this sorcery thing right eventually. ;)

On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 07:44  PM, Nick Jennings wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
>  Sorcery version 0.8.1 (1.0 BETA2) has been tagged in CVS and the 
> tarball
>  should be available on download.sourcemage.org within minutes.
>
>  There have been *many* bug fixes, and minor feature enhancements in
>  numerous areas.
>
>  One thing to note, is *DO NOT USE THE 'sorcery' SPELL* (this should
>  actually have been removed, and should be shortly, but for now, just
>  be aware). Use 'sorcery-devel' for nightly CVS tarballs or 
> 'sorcery-stable'
>  for 0.8.1 (and future stable releases).
>
>  So the first thing you should do:
>
> # cast -c -r sorcery-stable (or devel)
> # sorcery update
>
>
> - System Account Management:
>
>  One of the major new features is the introduction of the System 
> Account
>  management for spells to create the accounts they need.
>
>  Some of you may recall me asking for lists of accounts needed by
>  spells some time ago, I've generated a system (hasn't been tested
>  much <grin>) in /etc/sorcery/accounts & /etc/sorcery/groups.
>
>  The function (in libgrimoire) for spells to use is:
>
> create_account <account_name>
>
>  If the account is registered in the accounts file, the account will
>  be created with the UID assigned to it. This will ensure that spell
>  accounts will not interfere with user-space UID's (1000+), and that
>  the UID/GID's will be the same across systems.
>
>  Guru's update your spells in devel (but don't advance it into
>  testing, or stable, because sorcery 0.8.x is only in devel).
>
>  So, there you have it, test away.
>
>  Release Notes will be put up later tonight (no time right now) and
>  you will be able to get them here:
>
>  http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Sorcery+0.8.1+Release+Notes
>
>  Thanks for all your help (i.e. testing and bug reports), and (as 
> always)
>  special thanks to the Sorcery Team (and our honorary member Ryan 
> Abrams :)
>  for all of the hard work.
>
> --
>  Nick Jennings
>  Sorcery Team Lead
>
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