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- From: doubletwist AT sally.spack.nu
- To: Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>
- Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:37:28 -0600 (CST)
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:
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> 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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[SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ,
Tony Smith, 03/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ,
doubletwist, 03/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ,
Tony Smith, 03/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ,
doubletwist, 03/06/2003
- Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ, Tony Smith, 03/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ,
Tony Smith, 03/06/2003
- Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ, doubletwist, 03/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ,
doubletwist, 03/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ,
Tony Smith, 03/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ,
Dufflebunk, 03/06/2003
- Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ, Tony Smith, 03/06/2003
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Re: [SM-Discuss] STABLE USERS PLEASE READ,
doubletwist, 03/06/2003
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