[squeak-dev] Installer loading cryptography mcm files: used to work (I think) and doesn't now

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Jun 17 12:54:59 UTC 2020


Confirmed.

I do not know the cause, but I'll try to figure it out today. We have
been running squeaksource.com on a significantly updated image for
about 7 days. Very likely that is when the problem first appeared.

Dave


On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:08:14AM +0200, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> Well, it actually seems to be a squeaksource.com issue. All .mcm files 
> served by squeaksource.com seem to be missing their repository 
> information. E.g.:
> 
> http://squeaksource.com/OSProcess/update-dtl.mcm
> http://squeaksource.com/Cryptography/ProCrypto-1-1-1-tpr.15.mcm
> http://squeaksource.com/PostgresV3/update-ul.1.mcm
> 
> source.squeak.org is not affected by this:
> 
> https://source.squeak.org/trunk/update-mt.475.mcm
> 
> 
> Levente
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> 
> >I had a quick look and the breakage seems to come from the recent 
> >MonticelloConfigurations changes.
> >If you open the configuration browser on any configuration, the reposities 
> >of the configuration will not be parsed correctly. Their locations will 
> >always be #nil.
> >
> >
> >Levente
> >
> >On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, tim Rowledge wrote:
> >
> >>A little while back - late May (or as we refer to it around here, very 
> >>late 
> >March) - we had a thread about loading the Cryptography package etc. I'd 
> >swear that 
> >>
> >>(Installer ss) project: 'Cryptography';  install: 'ProCrypto-1-1-1'.
> >>
> >>worked to load it. There are multiple emails referring to that; it's what 
> >rww sugested.
> >>
> >>Today it fails because the two repositories that the read-in 
> >MCConfiguration has are set with a location of #nil (not nil, #nil). This 
> >is a *plain 5.3-19435 release image, freshly started* and just run the 
> >incantation in a workspace. I've tried several older configurations from 
> >the Cryptography repository in case I screwed up the mcm file, but no 
> >change. When I examine the mcm files they clearly don't have any 
> >repository names in there. I'm baffled how using that install command 
> >could have loaded anything. 
> >>
> >>Somewhere I must have done some prior required thing in those earlier 
> >>tests 
> >and failed to note it, surely? Right now I'm just assuming this is 2020 
> >having fun with me...
> >>
> >>tim
> >>--
> >>tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> >>Strange OpCodes: RCS: Read Card Sideways
> >
> >
> 


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