OK, I guess both answers make sense. If my boss (he's on the list ;-) ) gives me vacations in July or August I'll try to take a deeper look at this. It's been a long time since I touched GoboLinux scripts, but maybe I can contribute with a patch if no one fixes this before.
LMB On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Michael Homer <mich...@gobolinux.org> wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:03:18 Leandro Motta Barros wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This is one of those vague I-think-I-found-bug report we all hate :-) >> >> I recently ran "NewVersion Emacs 23.2", and I think that somehow it >> created the new version from the wrong version. I don't know exactly >> the steps I did, but here's some information and speculations: >> >> 1. I have recipes for the previous Emacs version in both a >> /F/C/Recipes/Emacs/23.1 and /F/C/LocalRecipes/Emacs/23.1. Looking at >> the recipe creation dates, it seems that the local version (that I >> create myself and apparently forgot to contribute) is older than the >> "official" (non-local) one. >> >> 2. I don't know when the /F/C/Recipes/Emacs/23.1 was downloaded. >> >> 3. My guess is that, when there are both a local and a non-local >> version of a recipe, NewVersion uses the local one. For me, it seems >> that it would be better to use the non-local one (which is presumably >> "more official"), but I may be failing to consider something else. (In >> my particular case, the official (non-local) recipe was better than >> mine. > Ah, so that's what was going on with that submission. I don't know that this > is a bug, exactly, but I would prefer that NewVersion based itself on the > official version (at least when it's the same version number). > > There is an issue of inconsistency with every other component of the system - > LocalRecipes are preferred everywhere else at the same version, which is > usually right. You want to be able to Compile your local changes in the > obvious way. You also want to be able to NewVersion from a local recipe if > that's the best available, I think, although I can't really come up with a use > case for it. > > I am leaning towards changing NewVersion to use only official recipes as a > basis. That will take changes to GetRecipe as well, which currently doesn't > give any options about what it returns. Someone else may have better comments > on this, but at least at the moment that would be my inclination. > > Having it ask which to use like Kenneth suggests is another option and > probably better in a lot of ways. It requires the same set of changes though, > and I suppose we may not want to add any interactivity to the selection there. > > I'm not going to get any time together to work on this in the near future, but > patches welcome! > -Michael > > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-devel mailing list > gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel > > _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
