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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • Cc: Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] cast / rebuild problems
  • Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 16:58:46 -0000

You can try changing the gnu mirror in sorcery, it /may/ help.

The problem with triggers is that most of the way through a cast, the
old version is dispelled, and triggers the on_dispel event... which
although logical, was an oversight and will be corrected shortly.

Hamish: You forgot,
3) Not everyone lives in a silly time zone ;)

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 11:42, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 00:23, Craig Dyke wrote:
> > 1) No devel grimoire ... not so bad will use test
>
> test grimoire is now as (almost) as uptodate as devel was without "most" of
> the problems.
>
> > 2) Upon doing initial rebuild of base system I notice that a couple dozen
> > of the casts all fail as URLs are all up to bupkis ... only way I could
> > find around
> > this is to hand alter spells to mostly point to
> > download.sourcemage.org/mirror
> > so as to get files. This will obviously all get wrecked when next I
> > update grimoire.
> > (noticed a large portion of the spells were to do with gnu, eg glibc)
> >
>
> GNU_URL's have changed their server layouts. they are being investigated
> and
> changed in the sorcery files. any not using GNU_URL (and failing via
> incorrect "hard" URL's) is a bug, and should be changed. if you have a list
> forward it to bugzilla or myself.
>
> > 3) The installation of init scripts fails for any spell except init.d. For
> > example, I installed
> > sysklogd which should get an init script but fails with an error
> > about
> > no RUNLEVEL.
> >
>
> I Am unaware of any problem with scripts in test or stable. I am sure there
> are problems i just am not aware of them. Some more feedback is needed
> here.
> failed install during cast ? failed running ?
>
> > 4) As part of reason for installing sysklogd (3 above), when I cast
> > Linux-PAM I keep
> > getting an error while trying to create the logs. Reason for this is
> > that the .fifo and .log
> > files for spell get removed because triggered cast of shadow actually
> > starts before cast
> > of Linux-PAM ends causing .fifo and .log files to be removed for new
> > spell. Even with
> > shadow being cast already as mentioned it still also gets triggered to
> > be cast again...
> > Temporary solution here was to remove TRIGGER from shadow and then
> > cast
> > shadow
> > seperately.
> This would be my fault entirely.
> I have to apologise, i implemented these PAM triggers a fortnight ago.
> Unfortunately it appears the the on_dispel trigger is NOT only run when a
> spell is dispelled (good if you are removing PAM) but also during
> prepare_install stage of BUILD(bad if you are just rebuilding). Sorry, more
> extensive testing would have found this out. I am about to revert the
> on_dispel trigger in all grimoires just scribe update tomorrow.
>
> > I am almost terrified to try and cast something like kde or gnome to see
> > what problems await me.
> > I hope this has happened to a few people?
>
> NO one else has made any comment, which means either of two things.
> 1) you and me are the only users of sourcemage. OR
> 2) you and me are the only users of sourcemage.
> Hamish
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