Re: [Chicken-users] meta-setup

[Andre Kuehne]

Andre Kuehne wrote:
> felix winkelmann wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have checked in a new egg (should be available soon via chicken-setup),
> > that does the requested re-install or upgrade.
> >
> > See: http://chicken.wiki.br/meta-setup
>
> Thanks you Felix! This looks like a handy tool.
>
> My experiences so far:
>
> First thing i noticed: One can shorten the commands ;-)
>
> I did a reinstall and all went well, till the meta-setup egg itself:
>
> cp: cannot create regular file `/home/ak/usr/bin/chicken-meta-setup': 
> Text file busy
> Error: shell invocation failed with non-zero return status
> "cp -r chicken-meta-setup /home/ak/usr/bin/chicken-meta-setup"
> 256
> Error: executing shell command failed: chicken-setup  -dont-ask meta-setup
>
> Hmmm...sounds reasonable and wouldn't be much of an issue, if the 
> meta-setup
> egg had sufficient version information, to refrain from constantly 
> reproducing itself ;-)
Silly me. During a reinstall the version information would't make a difference. 
So maybe meta-setup should never install itself? Or what about a "cp -rf"?

Andre