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- From: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>
- To: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
- Cc: Aaron Brice <abrice2 AT cox.net>, sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:02:23 -0700
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:59:45AM -0400, Dufflebunk wrote:
> It is sourced now. Although sourcing in bash also executs it. Is there a
> message somewhere we can point Aaron to about why CONFIGURE was moved?
It was initially going to be one step in all of the changes ryan wanted
to make to get spells to support partially support branching and stuff,
then he just thought it would be good to have to support things like
what the kde i18n spell needs to do...
>
> On 16 Sep 2002, Aaron Brice wrote:
>
> > I don't have a clear understanding of what the pre-DETAILS configure was
> > supposed to fix. If the purpose is to overwrite the DETAILS file with a
> > new DETAILS file to get dynamic variables, maybe we could make DETAILS
> > be executed instead of sourced so querying could be done.. But maybe
> > that's not the point. I'm too scared to do a sorcery update so I can't
> > see what the implementation was.. ;)
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 11:03, Dufflebunk wrote:
> > > That would cause problems if the onfigure is supposed to override
> > > parameters in details.
> > > Best thing for this would seem to me, would be to add another script...
> > > CONFIGURE_SPELL or something like that which runs first (where
> > > CONFIGURE
> > > is run ATM) and put CONFIGURE back where it was.
> > > I'm not much for adding stages though... What do we currently have?
> > > DETAILS, CONFIGURE, PRE_BUILD, BUILD, POST_BUILD, DETPENDS, CONFLICTS,
> > > TRIGGERS, DISPEL, POST_DISPEL (is there a PRE_DISPEL?), POST_INSTALL
> > > (is
> > > there a PRE_ ?)... Have I missed any? That's a lot, which is why I
> > > would
> > > prefer to avoid adding more. However, it may be the best way.
> > > Has anyone though of a way to reduce the number of scripts that a spell
> > > can use?
> > >
> > > On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Nick Jennings wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > So I have been getting reports of lots of spells broken because of
> > > > the
> > > > change Ryan made to switch the order so CONFIGURE is run before
> > > > DETAILS.
> > > >
> > > > It seems to me like both methods are important. For some of the KDE
> > > > il8n spells, things work out better when CONFIGURE is run before
> > > > DETAILS,
> > > > for lots of other spells though, CONFIGURE relies on values from
> > > > DETAILS.
> > > >
> > > > I don't think either way is inherently wrong, both are usefull. So
> > > > I'm
> > > > wondering if we should switch back, or if perhaps we should do a:
> > > >
> > > > run_details &&
> > > > run_configure &&
> > > > run_details &&
> > > >
> > > > Or is that a bit too much?
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Nick Jennings
> > > > Sorcery Team Lead
> > > >
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[SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Nick Jennings, 09/16/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Dufflebunk, 09/16/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Aaron Brice, 09/16/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Dufflebunk, 09/17/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Nick Jennings, 09/17/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Aaron Brice, 09/18/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Ryan Abrams, 09/18/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order, Tony Smith, 09/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order, Ryan Abrams, 09/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order, Wolfgang Scheicher, 09/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order, Aaron Brice, 09/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order, Tony Smith, 09/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order, Yoav Avitzour, 09/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order, Nick Jennings, 09/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order, Dufflebunk, 09/20/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Ryan Abrams, 09/18/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Aaron Brice, 09/18/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Nick Jennings, 09/17/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Dufflebunk, 09/17/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Aaron Brice, 09/16/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order,
Dufflebunk, 09/16/2002
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