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  • From: Pierre Abbat <phma AT webjockey.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Per-spell grimoire determination?
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:40:31 -0500

On Friday 03 January 2003 19:47, Michael Taylor wrote:
> Just a thought for the Great Scheme of things...
> Currently, going from one grimoire to another is a wholesale switch. I have
> been in test now for a while, but there are several packages out there that
> I wish to keep up with the bleeding edge on, like mplayer, lame, pan2, kde,
> NVIDIA_kernel, etc. and there are several other spells which I want to keep
> as stable as possible, e.g. ncurses, glibc, and mozilla. I have several
> "$SPELL-devel" spells in my personal grimoire that I copied from the devel
> grimoire, but updating them manually is becoming a pain.
> It would be nice (for me anyways) to be able to pick the stable, test, or
> devel grimoire to pull a spell from at the time of casting and have it
> maintained in CONFIG for the sake of updating. Of course, automating this
> means downloading three grimoires instead of one at every sorcery
> system-update.

How about setting the order in /etc/sorcery/local/grimoire to local, devel,
test, stable, and putting symbolic links in the local grimoire?

phma




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