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Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, up
From: |
Felix |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs? |
Date: |
Mon, 09 May 2011 07:11:45 +0200 (CEST) |
From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs,
upgrade all installed eggs?
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 13:15:18 +0200
> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 12:52:36PM +0200, Felix wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm not crazy at getting bleeding edge eggs.. However, I do like to upgrade
>> > `chicken' itself whenever a newer release comes out. Only realize that i
>> > have
>> > to find out and reinstall all eggs again. (Because at least all the eggs
>> > have to
>> > be recompiled using the new chicken?)
>>
>> Not always, only if some incompatibility has been introduced, particularly in
>> the C runtime system or header-files.
>>
>> I have added an option called "-reinstall" to chicken-install (see
>> experimental
>> branch). This will reinstall all installed eggs, using the same versions.
>> Only
>> minimally tested, though.
>
> I don't think this will help much. If there's an incompatibility,
> generally the ABI version is increased too (the 5 in /usr/lib/chicken/5/),
> so reinstall would reinstall all 0 eggs you have under the new directory :)
With incompatibility I mean small ones. Normally the ABI doesn't change.
The case you describe here is for big incompatibilities. Hey, it's a start, ok?
cheers,
felix
- Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?, (continued)
Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?, Stephen Eilert, 2011/05/05
Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?, David N Murray, 2011/05/05
Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?, William Xu, 2011/05/05
- Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?, Jim Ursetto, 2011/05/05
- Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?, Felix, 2011/05/08
- Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?, Peter Bex, 2011/05/08
- Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?,
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