Re: install-module re-enabled

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

awesome Jeff, thanks. I had to do --help every single time I used the
old script.

-seth

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 03:03, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've re-enabled install-module on widget, so I thought I'd better explain
> what's changed before everyone rushes to run their installs. It's now seven
> zillion times easier and less confusing. Seriously:
> 
>   $ install-module --help
>   Usage: install-module [OPTION] FILE
>   Install new tarball to GNOME FTP master and mirrors.
>   Example: install-module -k metacity-2.4.1.tar.gz
>   
>   Parameters:
>     -h, --help          display this help and exit
>     -k, --keep          do not delete the original tarball.
>     -u, --unattended    do not prompt for confirmation. NOTE: An unattended
>                         install will not provide any extra information to help
>                         you avoid an invalid (and potentially messy) installation.
>                         It is recommended that you do not use this unless you
>                         are *very* sure.
>   
>   Report bugs to <gnome-sysadmin gnome org>
> 
> How easy is that? No more stuffing around with --stable/--unstable, and you
> don't have to pass --create to add entirely new modules (it will give you
> extra information during confirmation) or --old to create diffs (it will do
> this against the previous version automagically). It will also drop diffs
> with binary file differences.
> 
> Here's an example of running it:
> 
>   $ install-module pango-1.1.1.tar.gz 
>         Module: pango
>        Version: 1.1.1
>        Maj.Min: 1.1
>    Destination: /ftp/pub/GNOME/sources/pango/1.1/
>   
>   Install pango? [Y/n] 
>   
>   Copying tarball...
>   Creating bzip2 archive...
>   Generating md5sums...
>   Updating LATEST...
>   Informing release team...
>   Deleting original tarball...
>   Signalling mirror update process...
>   Signalling churchill.acc.umu.se
>   Signalling tiktok.planetmirror.com
> 
> It gives you a bit of information about what it will do, prompts you (hit
> enter or Y/y to confirm, anything else to cancel), then gives you fairly
> verbose status as it runs. The only things missing here are the confirmation
> warnings (this is no-problem install) and the diff status (it will tell you
> if it has to drop the diff).
> 
> Note that we are not currently maintaining a latest/ symlinks directory.
> Soon enough we'll have one for each release category (desktop, platform,
> etc), and a couple of other really cool surprises to boot. :-)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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