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  • From: Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>
  • To: doubletwist AT sally.spack.nu
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ
  • Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:33:50 +0000

I can only put in a message which says, "you're screwed because you didn't
cast lockexec and here's a possible workaround". I'll do that now.

The problem is that the old sorcery (with cast, grimoire etc.) is all
dispelled before the new install script is run.

Tony

On Thursday 06 March 2003 2:37 pm, doubletwist AT sally.spack.nu wrote:
> Is it possible to put this message in the update somehow? like after the
> download and before it starts installing stuff?
>
> There's a pretty good chance that a LOT of people won't have read this
> when they try to update.
>
> Doubletwist
>
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Tony Smith wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Anyone using the stable branch should brace themselves now....
> >
> > We're about to go to sorcery 0.9.3 because spells are cropping up in the
> > stable grimoire that call functions (like create_account) that do not
> > exist in the antique 0.8.3 sorcery we know and love and it's time to move
> > on.
> >
> > This means we're about to get scribe, multi-grimoire support - I'm
> > holding gcc and glibc where they are for now, but they'll be coming
> > through soon too.
> >
> > If you want a smooth upgrade process, there's one thing you MUST do now -
> > BEFORE your next update: cast lockexec. Without lockexec the conversion
> > will go horribly wrong and cast will be broken.
> >
> > So, just to be clear....
> >
> > cast lockexec
> > cast lockexec
> > cast lockexec
> > ...
> >
> > You have been warned.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > PS. If you forget this (surely not!) then I think symlinking
> > /usr/sbin/lockexec to /bin/true will give you a quick and dirty way out.
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