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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Casey Harkins wrote:
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> My first task is going to put together a few different test machines that
> will spend their entire lives installing/casting/updating. I think a lot
> of the features/bugs that effect only some of us, are a result of testing
> on machines that either have been installed more/less recently, or updated
> more/less often. I'll see what I can do about automating some of this,
> e-mailing me the reports so I can investigate if something fails on one of
> them.
That would be a very good thing to have!

> I've got other plans as well which will be necessary to facilitate our
> switch from Mandrake to SourceMage at work. The biggest obstacle here is
> that our bigger network (only about ~15 machines) is 600 miles away. While
> I've had pretty good luck managing most things via ssh, when a computer
> loses net, it usually means driving out there. I'd like to create a
> specialized rescue CD that will boot, try to get itself on the network,
> and launch sshd. If a system-update renders a system unbootable, this
> could help resolve the problem.
There is a HOWTO on making bootable CDs, and I think there's even some 
info on the wiki about how the install CD can be modified. You could use a 
woking SM install as the CD image or something.

> The problem described in my previous rant about grimoire stability (I
> apologize if I offended anyone) I'm going to approach in two ways. First,
> using a cluster of test machines (as described above). Second, I'm going
> to create a small utility to allow me to create a custom grimoire by
> pulling spells from the various other grimoires. This allows me finer
> control over how things will get updated throughout our network.
Everyone gets cranky at the system every once in a while.
For a custom grimoire, you might want to try getting all the grimoires you 
want to pull spells from, then create a custom one (perhaps in 
/var/li/sorcery/grimoire/custom) by making symlinks to the other 
grimoires. That way the spells in the custom grimorie will be updated at 
the same time. Of course, this might result in weirdness. I don't know if 
anyone has tried it before.

> 
> I'd be happy to do some sorcery hacking as well, and will start searching
> bugzilla for open bugs when time permits.
If you make any fixes, just attatch patches to CVS to the bug and we'll 
merge them in within a day or two.

> Anyway, here I am rambling away when I should be studying...
Study shmudy ;)

> 
> -casey

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