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           Summary: graceful update of archspecs?
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: Untargetted future release
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Cast
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: sobukus AT sourcemage.org


I am not sure how valid this bug is...
it is about updating the smgl-archspecs spell, which involves deletion of the 
old archspecs and then running INSTALL to place the new ones in.
That way, at the beginning of INSTALL, there is no archspec file and on a 
system using devel sorcery (20070108) with or without castfs this results in

Preparing to install smgl-archspecs
Dispelled spell: smgl-archspecs
Cannot find arch spec for pentium-m!

And the list of files from cp -v being all-red then.
Still, when creating the cache tarball, this config catches up again and 
appends the proper host:

Creating cache 
file /var/cache/sorcery/smgl-archspecs-0.7.2-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2

Now on a different box, I have test sorcery 1.13.7-rc2 ... there I don't get 
that "cannot find arch spec" and the cache file

/var/cache/sorcery/smgl-archspecs-0.7.2-alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.bz2

is also OK. 
But there is a

/var/cache/sorcery/smgl-archspecs-0.7.2-.tar.bz2

that was created on first cast from 0.7.0 -> 0.7.2 with an older test sorcery 
(well, I didn't update yesterday...).
I upgraded sorcery just after that to check again and then on cast -c the 
correct cache tarball was created. So I really don't know if it happens only 
on 
update or if the new sorcery just fixed it.

My question is: Is the different behaviour by accident or planned? Which 
handling is better - the one without error message or the one that always 
creates the correct cache tarball...?

Is there any special handling in sorcery that is supposed to catch the case 
of 
casting smgl-archspecs? It obviously would be a good idea to store the 
currently used archspec file/info when dispelling archspecs for installing 
the 
new version.

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