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["Dufflebunk" <dufflebunk AT go-nix.ca>]

This can be done easily within a spell by adding a query and a check inside
the BUILD script.
if ! query "You're going to break stuff... ok?" "n" ; then exit 1; fi
Or something like that. I always get the query return value backwards.

--------- Original Message --------
> I've been thinking about the situation where updates to glibc, gcc, and
> other huge spells break too many bones. My idea is to introduce an extra
> flag, similar to "don't collect docs" or "don't archive the
spell",
> which would mean "don't update without explicit agreement from the
> admin". Initialli, all "Solo" spells will have to be marked
as such. So,
> every time the admin does "sorcery system-update" and, for
instance, gcc
> needs an recompile, s/he would be asked if it's OK to do that. Holding
> the spall is not working because nobody cares to actually go and hold
> the spells that are critical, partially because not everyone knows what
> is s/he supposed to be holding. Mozilla could use the same "explicit
> update consent" because it's just too damn big and takes forever to
> compile, so does OpenOffice and Javs SDK.
> Or this could be an option to sorcery, or just let the admin know that
> the update's here and whenever s/he is ready please use such and such
> command to update it (I mean, print "cast -c glibc" out and let
the
> person think).
>
> Which, BTW, brings us to the discussion of interactive/non-interactive
> option for sorcery/cast/etc, but that's an entirely different story...
>
> Ideas?
>
> Sergey.
>
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