[squeak-dev] Update stream transition

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 20:00:34 UTC 2015


I was just noticing the pun :-)


On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:15 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> "Sour"- pre Spur Squeak ;-)
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> I know :-/.  I make that typo all the time, o and p being right next to
> each other on my qwerty kbd.  Forgive me!
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>> Karl
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>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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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