Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>]

On Monday 28 July 2003 6:51 pm, evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Lots of users use Source Mage GNU/Linux because it has up-to-date
> > applications. Some of them use devel grimoire because it has the most
> > up-to date applications. Users want to use new versions of their
> > favourite applications immediately, they do not want to wait 1 month.
> > We must allow them to use for example new version of Mozilla, MPlayer
> > almost promptly, if they want them.
>
>   Frankly, this is the first thing that turned me onto SMGL and is the only
> reason I use devel.  However, I find the current division of
> devel/test/stable to not suit my needs.  The reason why is I like mission
> critical apps (ex: Gnome) to be stable, and less mission-critial ones (ex:
> MPlayer) to be state-of-the art.  There's no easy automatic way to do this.
>
>   Back to the subject at hand, since I want most of my apps to be totally
> state-of-the art I'm currently using devel (and cringing whenever I attempt
> an update to important apps) and hope to retain access to the latest spells
> for the latest apps in the future.

Jonathan,

There is a way to do what you want. It's exactly the way I want to work with 
SMGL too...

What I've done is to set up a grimoire tarball that contains symlinks to 
spells in the other grimoires. Then I scribe add this grimoire (using a file: 
url) and make sure it's at the top of the grimoire index.

Codex Listing
-------------

 [0] : personal: /var/lib/sorcery/codex/personal
 [1] : stable : /var/lib/sorcery/codex/stable
 [2] : test : /var/lib/sorcery/codex/test
 [3] : devel : /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel

Where the "personal" grimoire just contains symlinks to the spells in 
test/devel that I want to use instead of the default versions in stable.

Hope that helps.

Tony