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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Full Depends
  • Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:35:45 +1100

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:40, Paul wrote:
> 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.

looks good here now.

Hamish

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