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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Why don't we fully-describe dependencies such that dependency ordering 
is complete enough not to cause improper spell ordering during an upgrade?

I replied to your blog, but talking it over with Andrew made me realize 
the problem was probably caused initially by underspecified dependencies 
which caused our full-tree dependency analysis to be incomplete, thus 
wrong, thus leading to upgrade breakage.

What actually cast too soon (or too late) on your system for the double 
upgrades to not work?

Can you send a portion of the activity log to a bug report and cc me on 
it?

Seth

P.S. Allowing a trigger to rebuild a spell using the tablet version of 
the spell might be another workaround I don't think I mentioned in the 
blog, preventing the double-upgrade issue, but again, we need to fix the 
problem before adding a patch that doesn't really fix the core problem.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 04:03:16PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I can't test anything but here's an idea. What if we create a 
> `openssl-0.9.7-so'
> spell that *only* installs libcrypto-0.9.7.so and libssl-0.9.7.so? We can 
> make
> it an optional dependency of OpenSSL spell until next ISO release for 
> example.
> This way, old spells may (testing required) remain functional until they're
> recast, while all new and recast spells would use OpenSSL 0.9.8 includes and
> so-s and will not need 0.9.7 so-s. A dirty hack of course, but it may work.
> 
> Sergey.
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