Theo Van Dinter writes:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:25:05PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote:
> > >I'm also concerned that our whole sa-update system is a bit immature to
> > >trust it to distribute automatic code updates.  Down the road I think
> > >it's a great idea (it works for the anti-virus folks, and it should
> > >work nicely for us too,) but I'd rather get more people using sa-update,
> > >get more work done on sa-update, etc.
> > 
> > Either way, it's quite easy to switch from one to the other; since the
> > build/mkrules script will turn "loadplugin" into "tryplugin", since a
> > failure to load the latter is not an error, and since the sa-update script
> > can simply remove rules/*.pm when building the tarball, it's a matter of a
> > 1-line change in the "build/mkupdates/run_part2" script.
> 
> Aha.  Well, case in point.  The automated system to generate updates, which
> uses mkrules, will only work for the latest development version.  Whenever we
> branch off 3.2 and start work on 3.3, the system will stop functioning for
> 3.2.  This is why 3.1 updates are done manually whenever someone (me usually)
> gets around to doing it.

Yeah.  I haven't come up with a workable way around having to do that
manually, I'm afraid :(  (Or at least with a "run_part2" script
for that branch which doesn't use freqs output to determine what's
releasable, as the current svn trunk one does.)

--j.

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