Hm, top-posting?

Okay, so we have hieroglyph graphics in 1.2.1, and the update of the local opam 
directories is terse , and everything is fine.

I would have voted against the unicode graphics, they are not enough self explaining 
(I admit though using ✓ in my scripts).

While we are at it: opam has become a well working, very reliable package manager on 
*nix systems, thank you.

/Str.

On 27.03.2015 19:54, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> There is no error. The update seems to have succeeded. An "update" only updates the 
> metadata information, and doesn't actually upgrade any of your packages. To upgrade 
> your packages, you can now type "opam upgrade" as the message printed out states.
never with dubious binaries... :-)
>
> What you're referring to as heiroglyphs, I see as rather nice usage of unicode 
> characters to represent useful information.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Mr. Herr <misterherr@freenet.de 
> <mailto:misterherr@freenet.de>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 27.03.2015 19 <tel:27.03.2015%2019>:09, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>
>         On 27 Mar 2015, at 18:00, Mr. Herr <misterherr@freenet.de
>         <mailto:misterherr@freenet.de>> wrote:
>
>
>             the 1.2.1 binary from https://github.com/ocaml/opam/releases/tag/1.2.1,
>             as well as the compile result of
>             opam-full-1.2.1.tar.gz are behaving strange on my opensuse 1.3.1.
>
>             All I did was to replace the 1.2.0 binaries with the 1.2.1 version.
>
>             Here a console log where 'opam' is /usr/local/bin/opam-1.2.1-x86_64-Linux
>
>             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             strobel@s131-intel:/data/lvmvol/strobel-sources> opam update
>
>             =-=- Updating package repositories
>             =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>             [default] synchronized from https://opam.ocaml.org
>
>             Updates available for 4.02.1, apply them with 'opam upgrade':
>             ===== ↻  1   ↗  1 =====
>             strobel@s131-intel:/data/lvmvol> opam-1.2.0-x86_64-Linux update
>             [default] Downloading https://opam.ocaml.org/urls.txt
>             Updating /opt/opam/repo/compiler-index ...
>             Updating /opt/opam/compilers/ ...
>             Updating /opt/opam/repo/package-index ...
>             Updating /opt/opam/packages/ ...
>
>             Updates available for 4.02.1, apply them with 'opam upgrade':
>             === 1 to reinstall | 1 to upgrade ===
>             strobel@s131-intel:/data/lvmvol>
>             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>             What can I do to debug this?
>
>         I'm not sure if I've missed something obvious, since you haven't specified
>         what you think has gone wrong. You appear to have typed in "opam update" twice.
>
>         Either do "opam update -u" (which updates the package sets and upgrades
>         them), or "opam update && opam upgrade".
>
>
>     the output from the 1.2.0 version is there for reference, this is what I have
>     come to expect.
>
>     The 1.2.1 binary is not doing the same checks, and outputs hieroglyphs - very
>     dubious.
>
>     /Str
>
>
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