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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:04:56 +0000

Quoting Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>:
> I have essentially the same problem here, a number of machines (servers
> and soon to be workstations) all running SourceMage, but the automated
> updates scare me! I submitted a proposal to sm-discuss a few months ago on
> how a binary packaging system could be used to abstract the building to a
> single machine, offering a test bed before pushing tested binaries out to
> the production machines.
>
> I've got the utility for doing this almost finished. It allows you to
> create any number of grimoires and add spells to them based on the running
> system. Running 'binery update' updates the spells in these grimoires to
> match the versions installed on the local machine and generates a binary
> package for each updated spell. This grimoire can then be used on any
> other machine just as any source based grimoire would be used.
>
> If your interested in having a look drop me a note. I'm hoping to get it
> tested over the next few days. If all goes well, I'll throw together some
> docs and a spell for it and announce it on sm-discuss.
>
>
> -casey

That would certainly be handy for mass installs of SMGL.

-sandalle

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