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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-sorcery <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [SM-Sorcery] Full Depends
  • Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 22:40:22 -0500

There's a fix to sorcery in bug #3765 that needs testing.

Currently, if spells are cast, and they are recast (as in an upgrade or
rebuild), sorcery ignores the depedencies just casts in an undefined
order (alphabetical usualy). This is usualy ok, but in the case of some
groups of spells like gnome and xfce, some parts have to be updated
before other parts. This fixes that problem.

The tarball in that bug contains a replacement cast and libdepends. Use
them with an up to date devel sorcery. It's a fairly large change so
it's not going into devel this close to the SMGL 1.0 until it has had a
lot of testing.

It seems to be working, but needs more testing. It adds about 4s to each
cast. You may get some make warning about not being able to find some
targets, this should be harmless (it's caused by stale depends
information). It you're testing, read the comments, particularly the one
about what I'll need to debug problems. I'll need the debug log and
makefile, a comment tells you how to ensure that the makefile isn't
removed.

If you're planning on testing this, let me know, so if I get no bug
reports I know that it's because there were no bugs found, rather than
no testing ;)

In a few days if things still look good, I'll send to sm-discuss.

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