Re: somebody needs to run staging before 29 Jan

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: somebody needs to run staging before 29 Jan


> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I assume it uses the "normal" git cache on my computer
>
> Nope.  It uses whatever repository you specify in the LILYPOND_GIT
> environment variable.

But if I rely on other uses for the LILYPOND_GIT environment variable, then 
it must use my normal git stash.  Strikes me it would be safer to have a 
duplicate stash just for patchy, and a different variable.

> > - is there any danger if this is also my dev machine with other
> > changed files in the git filesystem (e.g. the LSR copies, for
> > example).
>
> Depends on what you specify in LILYPOND_GIT and the configuration file.
>
> > My brief look at one of the scripts showed an expectation of using a
> > RAMdisk.  I'd rather use my SSD.  Does this involve any changes?
>
> Configuration of the respective paths.

In the scripts or in a config file?

> > Please confirm which script should be the main "master" and what to
> > look for when it's running.
>
> I don't quite understand what you are asking here, but presumably you
> mean lilypond-extra/patches/lilypond-patchy-staging.py or so.

I think that's what I meant.

> > "smtp_command: msmtp -C ~/.msmtp-patchy -t" means nothing to me.
>
> That is command for mailing the completion message somewhere.  I have no
> idea what msmtp is supposed to be, but I replaced it with
>
>    mail dak
>
> on my system.  Which is not really what was intended, I guess, because
> it mailed a mail to me addressed to Graham and the developer list.
> msmtp would likely have bypassed me doing that.

I don't have a mail account on that machine, so would need to configure it 
to use my normal SMTP provider, but don't know how to do that.

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Phil Holmes