Re: [Chicken-users] reinstall all eggs

[felix winkelmann]

On 4/19/07, Andre Kuehne <address@hidden> wrote:
> A reinstall of all eggs could then be done like this:
>
> 1) get the list of all installed eggs
> 2) write the list to a file
> 3) remove/uninstall all installed eggs
> 4) install all missing eggs from the list
>
> So in case of an error, repeating step 4) would always do the right.
> Some possible options for chicken-setup to support this:
>
> * output the names of all installed eggs
> * update:
>    - if egg-names are supplied (on the commandline):
>      - install missing eggs
>      - update all given eggs with available updates
>    - otherwise update all installed eggs with available updates

Thanks for the suggestions, Andre. I will probably create a separate tool
(egg) that does these sort of things.


cheers,
felix