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  • Subject: [SM-Sorcery-Bugs] [Bug 13544] New: need user prompt if STAGED_INSTALL=off is ok
  • Date: 20 Feb 2007 22:25:47 -0000

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13544

Summary: need user prompt if STAGED_INSTALL=off is ok
Product: Sorcery
Version: Untargetted future release
Platform: Other
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: Cast
AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
ReportedBy: jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org


(I'm starting this with sorcery for now because of the issue of the default
answer to the query, but we may decide it's just a grimoire thing. I also
don'
think we have to solve this for 1.14.x since it's not technically a
regression.)

Since some major spells have issues using staged install, we should really
give
users a way to indicate if automatically turning staging off is ok, or if they
need to get and accept a warning first.

Obviously to get the spell installed they will have to allow it to go in
without
staging at some point, I just want to avoid the scenario where someone gets a
broken glibc all over their production system and didn't realize it wasn't
using
staging in the first place. A query makes this their problem to plan, not
ours.

There are two parts to this:

1) They should get asked per spell, but the response should probably get
remembered, since this is basically "sign the disclaimer once", not "are you
really sure" every time. But if we want to get complicated we could make the
options "(yes|no)(this time|every time)".

2) Ideally they should be able to set if the default response somewhere.

We could accomplish #1 by just making a grimoire function that notices in
CONFIGURE if STAGED_INSTALL is off and does a config_query accordingly.
However
this doesn't give the user a way to set a default answer, and opinions on what
default is appropriate are probably going to vary a lot depending on the type
of
user and type of system. Fewer people will want to default to "never without
my
persmission" but they are going to be the ones that risk the most if a
non-staged cast breaks on them.

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