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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On 8/4/17 5:45 AM, Thomas Orgis wrote:

Am Thu, 3 Aug 2017 18:08:41 -0700
schrieb Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>: 

How did those of you on test grimoire get past Bug 16031-
<https://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16031><https://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16031>Cannot
upgrade from stable 0.62-10 to test 0.63 due to gmp 4.3.2 -> 6.1.2
update <https://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16031> ? 

Thanks for pointing that out. Glad that I didn't jump into that yet. As
discussed recently with the ncurses6 jump, we really, really need at
least library preservation for these cases. Some sorcery support to
remove the respective library files from the install log of gmp/ncurses
before dispel and put them into a list. Or create local spells for the
vintage version to dispel after all dependers got rebuild.

Any ABI break like that needs to be handled. Currently, there is only
manual workarounds, like Pol did with ncurses locally.

We should revert 7ca504a370305392ee739b9586c7ef9ad57b1a88 until a tested fix is in place. At no point should upgrades need manual intervention nor break a box because the breakage is unknown.

I tried doing a `sorcery hold gmp` (stable Sorcery), but even then a `cast --queue` (with gmp removed) still triggered gmp to be cast and broke my VM (huzzah for snapshots ;)). It seems Sorcery no longer holds spells, though this worked in the past with some of the gcc updates I put off for a bit.

-sandalle

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