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  • From: "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] How to handle multi-version spells
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:03:20 +0200

Ladislav Hagara wrote :

> > IMHO NO(I feel very strongly about this) I don't like to use some
> > random thing
> > to set a version. I prefer for the VERSION=[whatever_scm_it_uses] approach
> > for non automatic(i.e. VERSION=cvs, VERSION=svn and so on).
>
>
> It was discussed several times.
> The VERSION=$(date +%Y%m%d) is the only way as to ensure the sources
> will be updated for normal users.
> Not all our users are linux specialists, they only want to use their
> favourite application.
> They use Source Mage because we provide CVS version of that application.
>
> Personally I would like Source Mage to be more user friendly.
> I know most of you prefer Source Mage to be administrator friendly.
> Of course according to this we provide default options.
>
> I suggested for example tools for automatic deleting old linux kernels
> trees (/usr/src/linux-OLD).
> I know users which have tens unpacked kernels in /usr/src and they are
> surprised they have no disk space.
> I just dealed with another kernel related problem. User ask me why he
> doesn't use the last linux kernel.
> After installing and reboot the command "gaze installed linux" prints
> the last one but the "uname -r" prints old one.
> The problem was with /etc/lilo.conf (a lot of images, Fatal: Bitmap
> table has space for only 7 images).
> Do we want to solve this kind of problems or no?
> Administrators don't want some scripts to edited their /etc/lilo.conf or
> removed sources from /usr/src/linux-xxx.
> Users would appreciate it.
>
> Back to VERSION.
> I prefer VERSION=$(date +%Y%m%d).
> Moreover I would like to have some options to drop compiling a cvs (svn,
> bk, ...) spells when nothing changed (maybe parsing the cvs update output?).
> See http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8052 (better support for
> cvs and svn version of spells).
>
> The strange is I am not able to read
> http://www.sourcemage.org/spell-multi_version
> (Access denied You are not authorized to access this page).
>
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I thought it was agreed that there would be a choice between using dates
and therefor automatic updates and -tags and thus give the user the ultimate
choice. I endorse that but I will never endorse to have use of date all over
the place.

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Andrew "ruskie" Levstik
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