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- From: "Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>
- To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Automated system-update
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 01:27:57 -0600
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Um...I though this mailing list *was* the documentation ;)
Bearcat M. Sandor
On Friday 14 May 2004 01:09 in an email titled "Re: [SM-Discuss] Automated
system-update" Andrew wrote:
>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
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[SM-Discuss] Automated system-update,
Jaanus Heeringson, 05/14/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Automated system-update,
Andrew, 05/14/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Automated system-update, Bearcat M. Sandor, 05/14/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Automated system-update,
Andrew, 05/14/2004
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