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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

I slightly disagree.

Having automatic updates of versions seems, at first, to ease the load on
grimoire gurus, but what happens when a version breaks things (i.e. db,
gcc, etc.)?  This will then add even more problems, especially since
nothing will be tested.  Some spells require hard-coding of versions
(kde-*) in their files, yes, we could make special exceptions to these
spells in the scripts, but that's a Bad Thing (TM).

As for e-mailing the gurus with updated versions, all of the gurus are
subscribed to the freshmeat listing for the program (you are, aren't you?
;)) and get e-mails from that, though sometimes it's a bit behind.

I find updating versions to not be too much of a hassle.  I update the
version in DETAILS, summon it (to make sure it works), fix anything if
it's broken there, then I cast it.  If it casts successfully, I uncompress
the $SOURCE* and do an md5sum on the tarball, then paste that into the
spell.  I then make the changes into the repository (p4 or cvs) and
update.  Yes, there is a script to automagically change the version and
md5sum, but I like doing it by hand so that I know it is done.

Someone once mentioned that we could have a web-based for to do this, but
all that would do for this problem is move it from the console (or
terminal) to a GUI, you'd still have to find the md5sum and copy it over,
along with typing in your changes.

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

> this is an on-going problem. As grimoire wizard i try to go through
> sections from time to time checking the md5sums...but if you've tried
> checking a whole section for integrity...well...its really boring. I
> think that md5sums should be filled in automagically, or something. In
> fact the whole version bumping thing should be a lot more automatic. We
> ought to have some sort of script that checks every spell in the
> grimoire by going to the download site and searching for a higher
> version number, then emailing the guru of the new version. Once they
> bump the version and check it out, either 1) they can run a script
> themselves (Dufflebank has a script that sorta does this) or 2) the
> central depot/repository just does it all automatically when it detects
> a version bump.
>
> Anyways, thats just my idea, md5sum's should be a lot easier to add into
> spells, and more of an automatic thing.

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Eric Sandall                      | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://www.sandall.us/~sandalle   | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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