[squeak-dev] Re: [Box-Admins] Updating VMs and possible conflicts

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 19:35:09 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
wrote:

>
> On 02.07.2014, at 18:59, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Just that it is not lost,
> >
> > debian provides a facility to provide normally incompatible
> > binaries. (eg, different versions, different vendors)
> > they call it alternatives. (See /etc/alternatives)
> >
> > one example: jvm. or cc.
> > on my server:
> >
> > $ ls -l /usr/bin/cc
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 19 13:10 /usr/bin/cc ->
> /etc/alternatives/cc
> >
> > $ ls -l  /etc/alternatives/cc
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 19 13:10 /etc/alternatives/cc ->
> /usr/bin/gcc
> >
> > and you can select:
> > $ upate-alternatives --list cc
> > /usr/bin/gcc
> > /usr/bin/clang
> >
> >
> > That way, we could provide different squeakvm's via this tool :)
>
> Nope. That would work only if all VMs could open all images.
>

But there's no technical reason why, on linux, we couldn't implement a
replacement for the squeak script that would select a different lib dir
depending on the type of the image.  Perhaps when we have a CI server
successfully building all VMs we could afford to do this?

--
best,
Eliot
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