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

The "until the `cast --queue' operation is over" part is difficult when 
we throw in that people like to break in the middle and/or ctrl-c, or 
that stuff simply breaks sometimes.  Otherwise it would be a bit 
cleaner/faster than watching where binaries and libraries are linked for 
every spell.

cleanse --fix already does ldd analysis for every spell -- if we pulled 
it into the same place that md5logs are made, we wouldn't lose much 
speed, I think -- it would just be a lot smarter at a small cost.

Seth

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 07:42:23PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> This "alien store" is a nifty thing to have until the `cast --queue' 
> operation
> is over. One way to do this is to install the new spell version without
> removing the old one (fake dispel), and "subtract" install logs to figure 
> out
> which files have to go to ultimately remove the old version. In this case,
> libcrypto.so link would be overwritten by a new link, but libcrypto-0.9.7.so
> would stay until the whole queue was cast. Only then those "legitimate 
> aliens"
> would be removed by `cleanse --fix' at the very end.
> Two optimizations that I see are: (1) only do "fake dispel" for stuff in
> /usr/lib, so that files in /usr/{bin,include} are removed at once; (2) make
> "fake dispel" disabled by default, and only enable it for selected few 
> spells.
> 
> Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
> 
> >A kind of temporary alien store until the libraries are no longer
> >useful.
> 
> 

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