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

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:32:34PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:24:36AM -0500, Robin Cook wrote:
> > I don't see in the original proposal on May 7th that SOURCE be set to
> > $SPELL-cvs.tar.bz2
> 
> Yeah, it seems like I forgot that.
>  

I thought it was so you could cvs update whenever you recast the spell.

> > On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 11:42 +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > Hi everyone.
> > > 
> > > We have quite some spells that support multiple versions based on a user
> > > choice. Right now basically all of them behave differently. I'd like to
> > > have a unified behaviour so the user always knows what to expect.
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Now for the actual versioned spell. The essential differences between
> > > the spells we currently have:
> > > - some spells default to stable version, some to cvs version
> > > - some spells set VERSION=$(date +%Y%m%d), other set VERSION=HEAD, i.e.
> > >   some auto update everytime you run sorcery queue, others don't
> > > 
> > > What I'd like to see:
> > > - spell asks which version to use, always defaulting to the stable
> > >   version
> > > - spell asks if it should automatically update everytime sorcery
> > >   queue/system-update is run (only for cvs/svn/... versions)
> > > All questions asked in PREPARE, dependency on the vcs added depending on
> > > the choice.
> > > 
> > > If the spell is not set to automatically update, VERSION should be set
> > > to a constant string (e.g. HEAD, TRUNK). If the spell is set to
> > > automatically update VERSION should be set to $(date +%Y%m%d). This will
> > > lead to a new cache tarball every time the spell is updated which is
> > > intentional. If an automatic update broke something, the user can dispel
> > > -d to a previous version.
> > > 
> > > If people agree with this I'll add it to the guru handbook and every
> > > mult-version spell not working according to this method will be
> > > considered a bug.
> > > 
> > > Questions? Suggestions? Flames?
> > > 
> 
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