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

Chris Cunnington brasspen at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 17:04:25 UTC 2014


On Jul 2, 2014, at 12:32 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> The interpreter VM is installed on both box3 and box4. The debs are in
> /root/localdebs and a record of the installation is in the log file in the
> root account (I don't remember the name).

Yup, I see it. Here it is. 

admin-log.txt:  sudo dpkg -i /root/localbuild/squeakvm_20131020-1_i386.deb

OK, r2793 is the Interpreter VM and it's installed in both boxes. It's installed in a different location that Cog: 

>> /usr/lib/squeak/4.0-2776
>> /usr/local/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2793

To my mind that means there's no naming conflict, but I suspect that's not what you mean. In both box3 and box4 the only script in /usr/bin is cogvm in box4. The interpreter VM has no script to start it, which I think explains why "squeak -version" produces nothing at all; whereas, "cogvm -version" does. And this is the naming convention you want to clear with Eliot, right? What to call the script that starts a VM process? I don't think the Interpreter has one installed on either box. 

Closer? 

Chris 


> Dave
> 
>> I did a bit of a survey of VMs on boxes 3 and 4. [1] My aim is to upgrade
>> box4 to the latest Cog (non-Spur) VM available.
>> I think I can do that in box4 with no fuss, as I don't think the
>> Interpreter VM is installed. So I don't expect a conflict. It is worth
>> noting that some binaries are stored in /usr/local/lib and others in
>> /usr/lib.
>> 
>> About where to put the .deb files. I guess the proper thing is to use
>> cogdeb.zip in /root/localbuild and then copy the deb to /root/localdeb.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> [1]
>> 
>> BOX3 - start script used
>> 
>> TEST FOR VERSION:
>> cogvm -version 	r2776
>> 
>> /usr/bin/cogvm
>> 
>> BINARIES AVAILABLE:
>> /usr/lib/squeak/4.0-2776
>> /usr/local/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2793
>> /home/chrismuller/vm/lib/squeak/4.0-2761
>> /home/chrismuller/vm/lib/4.4.7-2357
>> 
>> localdebs:
>> cogvm_2776-1_i386.deb         squeakvm_20131020-1_i386.deb
>> djbdns_1.05-2_amd64.deb       squeakvm64_20131020-1_i386.deb
>> squeak-sources_4.1-1_all.deb
>> 
>> 
>> BOX3 - no start script used?
>> 
>> TEST FOR VERSION:
>> squeak -version
>> cannot find VM to run image 'squeak' with option ''
>> 
>> BINARIES AVAILABLE:
>> /usr/local/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2793/squeakvm
>> /home/davidlewis/[VM|VMCogUnixBuild|VMUnixBuild]
>> /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/*
>> 
>> 
>> localdebs:
>> squeakvm_20131020-1_i386.deb  squeakvm64_20131020-1_i386.deb
> 
> 
> 



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