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

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:56:47PM -0500, Casey Harkins wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Andrew wrote:
> >>One of the more important things is getting the depends file of the
> >>installation right, i.e. no spells in the depends that aren't installed.
> >>The current sorcery is quite picky with the depends file due to its
> >>usage of make, and some people reported problems after a new install
> >>with sorcery bailing out of every cast due to that stuff.
> >
> >Actually theres now a dirty hack in devel sorcery to avoid this,
> >but regardless, a new iso should have a proper depends file.
> >
> >What that exactly means is that the spells another spell depends on must be
> >installed. Having a proper depends file also means that the installed
> >spells actually do depend on the things listed in that file.
> >
> >We dont really care too much about depends lying around from a dispelled
> >spell wrt cast bailing out, but thats not to say it isnt a problem,
> >but its not the one with cast leaving early).
> >
> 
> Maybe we can look at storing depends info in the cached .tar.bz2's (as has 
> been discussed before). This will make it much easier to get the depends 
> info right when installing binaries from the iso.
> 
Yes yes, grumble grumble, its on my agenda, and I think about that quite
often actually. The updated "commit on success" code in devel sorcery
is actually the first step towards getting there. I just have to make
the bundling of tarballs include that file, and work on the resurrect
code to make it install and verify that data.

Theres just lots of things that need working on and I've not gotten
there yet :-/

But dont worry, its all part of my master plan.

-Andrew

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