Hi Ted: The start_over script is currently not perfect, for instance if your ODA (OSCAR Database) is not populatd yet or if for some reason you lose the data, then the script will fail miserably, because it depends on yume-opkg which in turn depends on the database being populated with sane data.
Perhaps with your help, we can make the script more powerful. Thanks, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Ted Powell > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:19 > To: Bernard Li > Cc: OSCAR Devel > Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] Bug in scripts/start_over > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:42:43PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > > Hi Ted: > > > > I believe that if you re-install OSCAR with the latest revision > > It was my impression that it was supposed to be ok to run start_over > before doing so. Since the previous revision I had (r4871) had a > start_over script with a syntax error, there was no evident reason why > I should not run the new (r4969) one rather than fixing the old one. > > > it will generate the "pre-oscar rpmlist" during > installation, therefore before you run "start_over" you > should always have this list. > > Unless something has gone wrong, necessitating starting over. > > > From the sounds of it, we should simply bail if the > pre-oscar rpmlist does not exist since this should not be a > situation we want to be in. > > Bailing out is in fact the (ungraceful) result of the current > behaviour. > > According to a note I made from one of the lists, "when rerunning > wizard, may want to rm -rf $OSCAR_HOME/tmp". That's the > directory where > pre-oscar.rpmlist lives. If the presence of pre-oscar.rpmlist is going > to be essential to the functioning of start_over, perhaps it shouldn't > be in $OSCAR_HOME/tmp. > > What harm is there in start_over doing the best it can (with a warning > message), especially as the code to do so is mostly in place? > > > Note also that a missing pre-oscar.rpmlist is not the only possible > reason for yum not to have anything to remove. Whether or not it's > considered appropriate for start_over to refuse to function in the > absence of pre-oscar.rpmlist, start_over should still avoid invoking > invalid command lines. > > > -- > Ted Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://psg.com/~ted/ > "If you don't look, you don't know." > Dr. Sam Ting, Nobel laureate experimental physicist. > _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
