Re: first-setup.sh

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 8-6-2012 18:54, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Andy Thomas wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> after a lot of confusion I discovered that first-setup.sh is not Andy-proof. If there is a broken internet connection, the update lua process works and pushes the rsync error message very quickly out of the terminal. I propose to change the rsync line to
>>>
>>> rsync -rlptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/$platform/bin . || { echo "Cannot reach the repository"; exit 1; }
>>
>> Thank you, that makes sense, I'll change it.
>>
>> But I believe that some similar safeguards might be needed in the lua
>> script (there is a slight chance that this would go through and the
>> calls in lua script wouldn't).
>
> Also, if the file doesn't exist on the server (if you change a letter
> in path or if platform would be removed from supported one for
> example), it doesn't stop. I didn't try to investigate if there is an
> easy way around that.
>
> Also keep in mind that users need to update the original script
> (currently still called first-setup.sh) manually.

Maybe this is then the right time to do the renaming:

fetch-context

or so, as an update is not a first

Hans


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