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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 20:50:22 -0300
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From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] nupas update
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just a comment, the python port includes some hg bits because of my lazynes=
s
the thing is that hg isn't just python, it has some c modules that had
to be built
in in python, so python needs to be recompiled to support hg...
so I went the easy way, python already comes with the hg c code.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:09 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Akshat Kumar
> <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
>
>> Is `rbind' a recursive bind, that takes care of binding at
>> all depths? Because that's what you'd need in order
>> for the binds to work. And then you shouldn't have any
>> problems.
>
> Yes, aki wrote it and yes, I thought it should solve the problems. It
> did not seem to work.
>
> I'll get you a copy. Oh wait look here.
> http://9grid.net/magic/webls?dir=3D/aki/src/cmd
>
> i sure do miss aki. Can you try the rbind thing and see if I got
> something wrong? Would be *very* nice to leave the files in the .iso
> and just bind things.
>
>
>> If I can come up with a general set of commands to revert
>> a given package =C3=A0 la history(1)/yesterday(1), I would put
>> a set of those commands in /installed/$i when the package
>> is installed. Then you just pass it to rc and you're golden.
>
> I don't think that's good enough. It's fine for standalone packages.
> But consider hg. It depends on 3 or 4 things. Should you track that
> stuff too, and not remove python is hg is installed? If python creates
> 'x', and hg creates 'x', should you remove x if you remove HG? and so
> on ... =C2=A0This is what makes tracking packages so ugly.
>
> It gets ugly fast. I would just as soon mount the .iso's and do binds.
>
> ron
>
>



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