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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line opt
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Felix |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:07:13 +0100 (CET) |
>
> Currently, chicken-status lists information about extensions. As far as
> I understand, eggs can contain one or more programs/extensions. It
> would be handy if chicken-status could list eggs only, so we could use
> its output to feed chicken-install, for example. It can be useful when
> you update Chicken and want to install all eggs installed for the old
> Chicken.
>
> Example:
>
> $ <new-prefix>/bin/chicken-install `<old-prefix>/bin/chicken-status -eggs`
Shouldn't "chicken-install -reinstall" do this?
>
> Attached is a patch to add a -eggs (or -e) command line option to
> chicken-status.
I think you forgot to attach it.
>
> It is possible (although not usual and probably not recommended) to make
> eggs install multiple extensions with different versions.
Not recommended. Very bad, actually.
> chicken-install only stores versions of extensions in the local repo.
> It does not store information about egg versions. Thus, this patch does
> not address egg versions, since chicken-status is unable to determine
> them. It simply lists egg names. Making it list names and versions
> would be much better, but I don't know an easy way to do that (maybe
> chicken-install should add an egg-version tag to .setup-info files? Or
> maybe eggs that install different extension versions should be
> considered broken?)
Yes, I think they should.
cheers,
felix
- [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2012/12/14
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option,
Felix <=
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Felix, 2012/12/14
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2012/12/14
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Felix, 2012/12/15
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2012/12/15
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Felix, 2012/12/15
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Felix, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Peter Bex, 2012/12/19
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Felix, 2012/12/19
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] chicken-status: add -eggs command line option, Felix, 2012/12/22