On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Andy Thomas wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> after a lot of confusion I discovered that first-setup.sh is not Andy-proof. >> If there is a broken internet connection, the update lua process works and >> pushes the rsync error message very quickly out of the terminal. I propose >> to change the rsync line to >> >> rsync -rlptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/$platform/bin . || { >> echo "Cannot reach the repository"; exit 1; } > > Thank you, that makes sense, I'll change it. > > But I believe that some similar safeguards might be needed in the lua > script (there is a slight chance that this would go through and the > calls in lua script wouldn't).
Also, if the file doesn't exist on the server (if you change a letter in path or if platform would be removed from supported one for example), it doesn't stop. I didn't try to investigate if there is an easy way around that. Also keep in mind that users need to update the original script (currently still called first-setup.sh) manually. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________