[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] Squeak 5.1 Code Freeze -- Trunk still closed;
first release candidate(s) available
marcel.taeumel
Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de
Sat Aug 20 07:29:27 UTC 2016
tim Rowledge wrote
>> On 19-08-2016, at 4:32 PM, Levente Uzonyi <
> leves at .elte
> > wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Fabio Niephaus wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:31 PM tim Rowledge <
> tim@
> > wrote:
>>>
>>> > On 19-08-2016, at 12:41 PM, Fabio Niephaus <
> lists@
> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for the bug reports. I've fixed the regex bug and found a
>>> way to ensure "find" ignores dot files.
>>>
>>> Excellent.
>>>
>>> > But why do you think ensure_conf_file needs to depend upon the
>>> kernel level?
>>>
>>> Because the issue was fixed in the kernel some time ago.
>>> Unfortunately I couldn’t tell you exactly when, but the Pi stopped
>>> needing the file addition around 18 months ago. That’s around the time
>>> the kernel was bumped up to v 4 I think. Whether it is any sort of
>>> problem to have such a file when it isn’t required… I don’t know. It’s
>>> certainly less alarming for any user if the script doesn’t
>>> demand their superuser password!
>>> Can someone shed some light on this or do some more digging? When
>>> exactly do we need a squeak.conf? Any other ideas how to deal with this?
>>
>> You always need it when you use an ht VM. Without the file the VM will
>> not start (unless you run it as root, but that's something you wouldn't
>> do, would you?).
>> All VMs built by the CI are ht VMs, so the file is a must.
>
>
> This is not strictly true; recent kernels simply don’t cause the problem.
> My Pi just doesn’t need the file and hasn’t for 18+ months. I’ve checked
> for it pre-existing and it doesn’t. I’ve been delivering the PI system
> with an ht based vm for a long time now and millions of people use it
> daily.
>
>
>> The file has no effect on kernels before 2.6.X (basically 10+ years old),
>> so checking the version is unnecessary (the VM would probably not start
>> anyway due to C library differences).
>>
>> Levente
>>
>>> Fabio
>>>
>>>
>>> tim
>>> --
>>> tim Rowledge;
> tim@
> ; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>> Oxymorons: Good grief
>>
>
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge;
> tim@
> ; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
Here is another release candidate:
http://files.squeak.org/5.1rc2/Squeak5.1rc2-16535-32bit/
The 64-bit VM for macOS we use on TravisCI has some hick-ups at the moment.
Best,
Marcel
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