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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:23:32PM +0100, Arjan Bouter wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:51:35 +0100
> Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > there's a problem with the tablet if the PRE_REMOVE/POST_REMOVE spell
> > files put there are broken in some way, e.g. like the gnumeric
> > POST_REMOVE was broken:
> > Preparing to install gnumeric2
> > /var/state/sorcery/tablet/gnumeric2/20050308195706/spell/POST_REMOVE:
> > line 1: update_desktop_database: command not found
> >  ! Problem Detected ! 
> > 
> > root@Otherland:~# dispel gnumeric2
> > /var/state/sorcery/tablet/gnumeric2/20050308195706/spell/POST_REMOVE:
> > line 1: update_desktop_database: command not found
> > 
> > Dufflebunk told me on IRC that we can use PRE_PRE_REMOVE to fix those
> > files, so how would I find the tablet dir to fix it (no function for
> > that in libapi)?
> 
> There's a bug filed against dispel for this: Bug #8452
> 
> The temporary solution for this is to source the FUNCTIONS file in 
> POST_REMOVE
> before you call the function. Like this:
>       source $GRIMOIRE/FUNCTIONS
> 
> This will source the FUNCTIONS file from the grimoire the spell is cast 
> from.
> 
> BTW, i fixed all POST_REMOVES with this line a few days ago for devel and 
> test
> grimoires. are you talking about the stable grimoire here?

No, it is fixed in the spell, but that doesn't help as sorcery uses the
POST_REMOVE in the tablet, not the one in the spell.

> > 
> > Another question is, do we really want dispel to fail if POST_REMOVE
> > failed? When POST_REMOVE gets run the spell _is_ already dispelled, so
> > now I don't have gnumeric2 installed anymore but sorcery still thinks it
> > is installed.
> > In my opinion dispel should only fail if PRE_REMOVE or the dispel itself
> > fails and just issue a warning if POST_REMOVE fails. Thought on that?
> 
> I agree, anything which must be done when a spell is dispel'ed should 
> already
> have happened by the time POST_REMOVE is reached.
> 
> Arjan



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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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