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["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

Arwed von Merkatz wrote :

> First of all: If any other spell depends on a specific version of spell
> A then spell A _must not_ allow other versions. This means that the
> current apr/apr-util spells are broken as the apache2 spell requires the
> 0.9.x versions of them. In such cases the different versions should be
> provided by seperate spells, see ffmpeg/ffmpeg-cvs for another example
> where this is required.
> 
Yes this is a good idea.

> What I'd like to see:
> - spell asks which version to use, always defaulting to the stable
>   version
Yes the most secure and sane idea.

> - spell asks if it should automatically update everytime sorcery
>   queue/system-update is run (only for cvs/svn/... versions)
You mean ask as in do you want to always autoupdate or do you want to
manualy update? So that the user has a choice of autoupdating or not.
Or did you have something else in mind?
This is what I'd like to see:

config_query CVS "Do you want cvs" "n"
if [[ "$CVS" == "y" ]]
then
  config_query "AUTOUPDATE" "Do you want to autoupdate this spell or not." "n"
fi
And then a test in DETAILS for it?
if [[ "$CVS" == "y" ]]
then
if [[ "$AUTOUPDATE" == "y" ]]
then
  VERSION=$(date +%F) #+%F outputs date as %Y-%m-%d though I'd go with a 
unixtime string 
                      #here maybe ppl would like to update multiple times per 
day and
                      #still have the old caches.
else
  VERSION=cvs
fi

> All questions asked in PREPARE, dependency on the vcs added depending on
> the choice.
> 
Agreed.

> If the spell is not set to automatically update, VERSION should be set
> to a constant string (e.g. HEAD, TRUNK).

I'd put the vcs that is used for it i.e. cvs,svn,whateverelsewemightsupport


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