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[Kevin Monceaux <Kevin AT RawFedDogs.net>]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Jeremy Blosser wrote:

> 2) Do nothing to findutils, but when they install one of the others 
> confirm they mean it, and if they do use alter to fix findutil's logs. 
> This is probably the closest to "what they'd get on their own", but is a 
> brave new world in spell configuration... I don't think we call alter 
> automatically anywhere now.

While testing, after casting my mlocate spell in it's current form, it 
replaced locate, updatedb, updatedb.conf, and a man page or two from 
findutils.  Afterwords when running cleanse, cleanse noted the files from 
findutils that had been changed, noted that the md5 sums matched those 
belonging to mlocate, and happily removed the entries from findutils' 
logs.  If going the option 2 route above, could a trigger such as:

on_cast mlocate check_self

be added to findutils to take care of cleaning up the install and md5 
logs?  On the other hand, if there is a way to call alter from the mlocate 
spell, that would probably be a better route.



Kevin
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