[squeak-dev] Update stream transition

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 17:15:47 UTC 2015


On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:15 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Sour"- pre Spur Squeak ;-)
>

I know :-/.  I make that typo all the time, o and p being right next to
each other on my qwerty kbd.  Forgive me!



>
> Karl
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Aug 22, 2015, at 7:15 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Currently we have the problem that an existing trunk image from prior
>> > to the Squeak 4.6 release will lock up if the user does a normal
>> > "update from server".  A knowledgeable user can work around this, as
>> > with the script that Nicolas provides. But a year from now our tribal
>> > knowledge is likely to dissipate, so I don't really like the idea of
>> > having the original trunk update stream end in a frozen image.
>> >
>> > I think I have come up with a way to have the update stream switch
>> > automatically from trunk to squeak46 for existing images, see attached
>> > change set. The idea is to add this class into a separate package
>> > "Temp-update-strean-migration" in the trunk repository, and add that
>> > package to the last update map that worked for V3 images (I think this
>> > is update-eem.321.mcm, is that right?).  The package loads a class that
>> > checks to see if the image needs to be switched from trunk to squeak46,
>> > and changes the update preference accordingly.  It then removes itself
>> > from the system.
>> >
>> > Does this seem reasonable?
>>
>> Oh yes!  Looks a v good idea.  The only thing I could think of was adding
>> a preamble to trunk Kernel & System to have them error on non Sour.  But
>> your proposal above is /much/ better.
>>
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 10:24:31PM +0200, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>> >> 2015-08-06 16:47 GMT+02:00 Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >>>> We currently have the trunk update stream, which is governed by
>> update
>> >>> maps
>> >>>> called 'update' in the source.squeak.org/trunk repository. This
>> update
>> >>>> stream is applicable to Squeak images up to the initial release of
>> the
>> >>>> Squeak 4.6 image. These are images in the non-Spur image formats
>> (6504
>> >>>> or 6505 for 32-bit images, and 68002 for a 64-bit image).
>> >>>
>> >>> The .spur branch has already been collapsed onto trunk.  There is no
>> >>> way to advance a non-spur image except through commits to the release
>> >>> repositories (e.g., 'squea46').
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> FYI, I advanced the non spur with attached snippet (nothing really
>> clever).
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >
>> >> "update to latest cog version but not spur..."
>> >
>> > | url repository updateList updater lastUpdateMap config |
>> > url := MCMcmUpdater defaultUpdateURL.
>> > repository := MCRepositoryGroup default repositories
>> >            detect:[:r| r description = url]
>> >            ifNone:[ | r |
>> >                r := MCHttpRepository location: url user: '' password:
>> ''.
>> >                MCRepositoryGroup default addRepository: r.
>> >                r].
>> > updater :=  [MCMcmUpdater default] ifError: [MCMcmUpdater].
>> > lastUpdateMap := [updater lastUpdateMap] ifError: [MCMcmUpdater
>> classPool at: #LastUpdateMap].
>> > updateList := updater updateListFor: repository.
>> > updateList := updateList select: [:e | e key < 323].
>> > updateList := updater refreshUpdateMapFor: repository with: updateList.
>> > updateList do:[:assoc|
>> >                ProgressNotification signal: '' extra: 'Processing ',
>> assoc value.
>> >                config := repository versionNamed: assoc value.
>> >                updater updateFromConfig: config.
>> >                lastUpdateMap at: repository description put: assoc key.
>> >            ] displayingProgress: 'Processing configurations'.
>> > config ifNil: [^updater inform: 'Unable to retrieve updates from remote
>> repository.' translated].
>> > config setSystemVersion.
>> > updater inform: ('Update completed.
>> > Current update number: ' translated, SystemVersion current
>> highestUpdate).
>> >
>> > <MoveTrunkEndToSqueak46RepoForV3Images-dtl.2.cs>
>> >
>>
>>
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best, Eliot
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