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

> >
> > * tablet (the "installed grimoire"), if you dont know already, this is
> > the answer to storing more spell state information than was possible. This
> > helps us do certain things more intelligently.
> 
> Such as? Do spells need to explicitly use this or is it automagic?

Spells dont need to do anything different for the tablet to work with
the current set of things we use tablet for. However the relative paths
in spells to section/grimoire level files need to be updated to use
SECTION_DIRECTORY and GRIMOIRE...but thats not really completely related
to tablet.

> 
> > * cleanse has a --tablet option
> >
> > * resurrect was re-written, let me know if there are any problems with it
> >
> > * new filter functions, in addition to excluded and protected there are
> > now "volatiles" and "configs" filter files. Volatile files are ignored
> > by cleanse's md5sum check. Config's are treated more carefully by dispel
> > and resurrect, config files aren't blatently replaced or removed if we
> > detect they are changed. Spell's can also have their own spell level
> > filters by just adding a file by the name of the filter to the spell
> > directory. The format has also changed to regexp.
> 
> So we can use volatiles to fix the nvidia_driver/{xorg,xfree86,etc.} mess! 
> :)

exactly.

> 
> > * scribe has been cleaned up and almost entirely re-written
> >
> > * support for gpg checking of sorcery and grimoire tarballs
> 
> But not http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8220 ?
Notice I specifically said tarball, not tree :-) rsyncing and gpg
checksumming thereof will be better supported in the next release.