On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 01:18:27PM +0200, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The new egg-installation stuff is now in a state that seems to be basically
> usable and I wonder how to go on with this, as it is a bit of a hassle to keep
> this branch in sync with the C5 master.
Hello al
Hi all,
I wanted to check if the new chicken-install fixed the bugs we moved
to the chicken-5 milestone and noticed that #1169 is still an issue
under the circumstance where a re-installation of an egg is done as
root, after the egg had been installed by a user before. The fix
is pretty simple (I
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 07:17:09AM -0700, Ivan Raikov wrote:
> It considerably limits the effectiveness of distributing software
> written in Chicken, because now users who are not familiar with its
> peculiarities cannot simply run chicken-install. Could at least some
> option be added so that the
Ubuntu-derived distributions now ship with /tmp mounted as noexec by
default. This results in a chicken-install error that is difficult to
diagnose by non-expert users. The remedy can be as simple as setting
TMPDIR (but perhaps that should be prominently documented), an option
that forces chicken-i
Hi all,
Attached are two patches which move some stuff around and create the
chicken.platform module.
The commits should speak for themselves. While working on the patch,
I noticed that provide and provided? are not really related to feature
identifiers as such, and more to code loading, so I th
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Peter Bex wrote:
For example, we also define "machine-type" in chicken.platform, which to
> me is a bit confusing: how does machine-type differ from the "processor"
> entry in system-information's list? And why do we need the hostname
> to be in both get-host-na
Hi Peter,
That seems fine to me, applied.
I don't think it's worth trying to fix this in the 4.x line, so I've
closed the ticket as fixed.
Cheers,
Evan
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