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  • From: Aaron Brice <abrice2 AT cox.net>
  • To: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>
  • Cc: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>, sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]CONFIGURE & DETAILS order
  • Date: 17 Sep 2002 23:56:49 -0700

So why can't this be done within DETAILS itself?

Aaron

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 13:02, Nick Jennings wrote:
> 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?
> > > > >
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