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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:03:29AM +0200, Jaanus Heeringson wrote:
> I was thinking about adding "sorcery system-update" to chron on one of 
> my servers as some of you have done, but kind of chickened out since 
> ther is a potential for bad things to happend during unattended updates. 
> This gave me an idea though: wouldn't it be great to have some kind of 
> subset to "sorcery system-update" with the following differences:

So basically we want a system-update-unattented or something

> 
> 1. Abort spell update if there are new/uncached configuration options 
> and store the aborted ones into some kind of queue for later manual update.
Now this brings up the question, what if foo needs updating
and it depends on bar, and bar has an unanswered question? The simple
solution is we update foo anyway, but sometimes the update of foo
is married to the update of bar, and the new foo will fail if there isn't
a new bar to go with it. The more complicated thing is to crawl up the
depends tree and pull off everything that needs that new spell.

Im already working on that problem, so we'll see where I can go with this.

> 2. E-mail friendly output, eithet to email directly to the admin or 
> include in chron output/mail.
We already have an option to email reports and stuff to the admin about
casts.

> 
> Yes, I could help with this. Just show me the full sourcery documentation ;)

We dont have "full" sorcery documentation, but Im working on it :-)

-Andrew