[squeak-dev] What to do if the update stream is broken? [was Multilingual changes...

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Sat Apr 22 14:53:17 UTC 2017


On Fri, 21 Apr 2017, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
> 
>     no need to apologize (at least to me).  We all make mistakes.  I think the information to share is what to do when one breaks the update stream.  My understandings my of what to do may be incorrect but is
> the following:
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> 1. inform people on Squeak-dev asap (which may not be possible because others may have found out before you :-) )
> 
> 2. if the version can be done without then take it off of source.squeak.org.  If you're not a maintainer, ask a maintainer to delete it, otherwise delete it yourself

IMO this is a last resort solution for the cases when posting a new 
version would not help.

Levente

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> 3. Move your version to some save directory out of your package cache so it doesn't reappear
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> 4. Roll back your image and try and produce a new version that does not crash update
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> 5. Upload the new version
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> Marks are obtained for producing a version that doesn't include the British Ken version in its history.
> 
> What do more sage members of the community think the right approach is?
> 
> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
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> On Apr 20, 2017, at 11:44 PM, Rein, Patrick <Patrick.Rein at hpi.de> wrote:
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>       Sorry for messing this up. :/ I re-committed the changes with a fix (thanks to Eliot!). I learned that I have to be more careful with changes to class-side #initialize :)
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> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>       From: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> on behalf of Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
>       Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 03:35
>       To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>       Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] - Update stream broken? Multilingual changes...  
> So what's the resolution? This badly breaks the update stream.  And don't we also want to have the subclasses initialized?
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> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>       Yep, that's a bug, but you can safely ignore it by returning self from the debugger.
>       Actually ByteTextConverter class >> #initialize should not try to send those messages to itself.
>
>       Levente
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>       On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Chris Cunningham wrote:
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>             Hi. Just trying to update to latest, and ran into:Inline image 1
>             while updating package Multilingual-pre.220.mcz.
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>             -cbc
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> --
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
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