Starting new squeaksource image at sqf.org

Doug Way dway at mailcan.com
Sun Aug 28 17:16:57 UTC 2005


I tried starting my new squeaksource image (based on Bert's config) at 
sqf.org last night.  It mostly worked, except there was an odd problem 
with the mcz file names in the projects.  Instead of listing 
Balloon-md.3.mcz etc under the Filename column, it listed the 
commit-log description of the .mcz file in place of that.  This caused 
filename-based retrieval to not work.

I'm guessing this is an incompatibility in the data.obj (repository) 
file format between Bert's config and the original SS image that Avi 
setup... maybe an additional inst var is in there or something.  I 
re-created the problem on my local machine by copying the data.obj from 
sqf.org, also.

Anyway, for now I just switched sqf.org back to the old SS image to 
keep it running as it was.

I played around with it some more on my machine, and I think what I 
will do is just start over with a new data.obj repository.  I'll set up 
the new data.obj with 3 superadmins (me, Marcus and Avi), and the three 
re-created empty projects.  (Everyone else will need to re-add their 
login, and then Marcus or I can add them as developers to projects.)  I 
found there is a handy SSFileSystem>>recoverAllLostVersions method 
which will repopulate all of the .mcz files saved in the project 
directories, back into the data.obj repository.  So we shouldn't lose 
any of the mcz versions.  I'll run that once when I start it up, and we 
should be back where we were before, except for the users to be added.

I'll give this a try this evening... don't want to keep people waiting 
on this any longer.  (If something goes wrong, I'll just switch back to 
the old SS image for now again, but I think this should work.)

Once this is set up, then we'll be able to set up the real update 
stream again.

- Doug




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