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Re: [SM-Sorcery] Very old versions of sorcery laying around the mirror sites
- From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
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- Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Very old versions of sorcery laying around the mirror sites
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:42:49 -0800
Quoting Michael Taylor <tcm AT adelphia.net>:
> I don't know why, but *.sourcemage.org wouldn't resolve for me yesterday
> from sometime before 5:30 PM EST to 7:00 PM. During that time I did a
> sorcery system-update, and when it couldn't download the latest
> sorcery-stable.tar.bz2 from download.sourcemage.org, it found some mirror
> to download it from. When it installed the file it downloaded, I ended up
> with some version of sorcery from back in September 2002. When the site
> came back up sorcery update wouldn't work, so I had to blow away
> /var/lib/sorcery and reinstall sorcery manually, then rescribe the codex.
> Should we start putting the version number in the sorcery-stable filename?
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Michael Taylor
> tcm AT adelphia.net
> ICQ: 1938799
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
I've always thought that would be a good idea, but that would make `sorcery
update` a little harder, or have to know how to check for newer versions
(perhaps a LATEST file on download.sourcemage.org/sorcery ?).
-sandalle
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[SM-Sorcery] Very old versions of sorcery laying around the mirror sites,
Michael Taylor, 12/02/2003
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