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- From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
- To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:03:13 -0700
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I realize I'm opening up a can of worms here, but I thought I'd throw an idea
out to see what others thought of it.
A little background: I have two servers running SMGL that have not been
updated in a while, one of them in over a year. I am concerned that
automatically updating a system will break it and I'll have to run over and
fix it, and I don't necessarily want to sit in front of the computer for
hours watching lines of text scroll off the screen, so I don't update. I
realize that SMGL is much more stable now than it ever has been, but the
thought of having to drop everything, to fix a broken computer that wasn't
broken before I started, keeps me from updating them.
I have been wondering how I could keep those servers more up to date
automatically w/o fearing the breakage. Here is one idea.
What I'm wondering is if it would be possible to create a description or
level
of a spell update and a way to update a system only to that level. For
example, using something like a FIX_LEVEL variable in DETAILS or a separate
FIX_LEVEL file which has a set of predefined settings like security, bug and
normal (as examples, feel free to expand or modify). Then running something
like 'sorcery system-update security' would only update sorcery and those
spells which have been marked as security fixes, etc.
Then I could feel reasonably comfortable that an automated update run weekly
would not break the computer and/or would be easier to locate and fix a
problem.
Thoughts, comments, opinions?
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Jason Flatt (jason @ flattfamily . com)
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[SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Jason Flatt, 10/24/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Eric Sandall, 10/24/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Jason Flatt, 10/25/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Casey Harkins, 10/25/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Eric Sandall, 10/27/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Casey Harkins, 10/27/2003
- Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . ., Eric Sandall, 10/27/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Casey Harkins, 10/27/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Eric Sandall, 10/27/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Casey Harkins, 10/25/2003
- Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . ., Paul Mahon, 10/25/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Jason Flatt, 10/25/2003
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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .,
Eric Sandall, 10/24/2003
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