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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: disk AT sourcemage.org
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] switch
  • Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 16:29:24 -0700 (PDT)

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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Flavien Bridault wrote:
Le vendredi 02 septembre 2005 ? 16:15 -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) a
?crit :
On Sep 02, Flavien Bridault [f.bridault AT fra.net] wrote:
I didn't say that our developers do a bad work in general. I was just
talking on this particular case, when an update breaks a lot of spells.
And there is indeed a big paradox. For example, we are currently
discussing a lot on the better way to ensure sources integrity, we have
a good security team to ensure that our spells are safe, we have great
tools in sorcery, good spells, but on the contrary, we don't care about
breaking tons of packages with a simple update, without any notice in
the spell (even in the HISTORY). Am I the only one to think there is
something wrong with that ?

I think most people have not enough time to keep an eye on IRC, ML and
bugzilla as you suggest. And I also believe we lose users when such
things happen.
But maybe I do not well understand the purposes of SMGL and the people
we want to address to...

Isn't the purpose of the test grimoire to find problems like this so that
people can mention them before they get to stable and we can decide how
best to respond?
I expected such an answer. ;-)
Yes, it is true that 'test' grimoire is designed, as its name means to
test spells. :=)
Hopelessly, we know well that a lot of normal users use it [0]. It's
true however that they take a risk and they are warned.
But in this case, the maintainer knew well that the update broke a lot.
He updated it in july in devel, so I think he had enough time to notice
that.
And even if this grimoire is only designed to developers, I think this
would be good to not waste the time they can provide to SMGL.

This doesn't happen if the recommended method of updating is used:
`sorcery system-update` (or `sorcery -s` for the lazy ;)). That will
update Sorcery, the grimoires, clean do some cleaning, update spells,
and then check integrity (IIRC).

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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