[48342] in SIPB bug reports
Re: A proposal to encourage more use of /mit/sipb/bin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 01:28:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: A proposal to encourage more use of /mit/sipb/bin
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I like the plan in general. Forwarding one of my comments from the zephyr
discussion where this originated:
barnowl / volume.d / andersk 01:14 (Anders Kaseorg)
@sys should not be included in symlinks other than the compatibility
links like /mit/sipb/bin. It should be possible to request a binary
from a particular arch like /mit/sipb/arch/i386_deb50/bin/barnowl
without additional @sys resolution in the way.
barnowl / volume.d / andersk 01:17 (Anders Kaseorg)
So yeah, you want something like
/mit/sipb/arch/i386_deb50/bin/barnowl -> ../../../opt/barnowl/arch/i386_deb50/bin/barnowl
and when an administrator needs to add a new arch, they make
/mit/sipb/arch/i386_deb60/bin/barnowl -> ../../../opt/barnowl/arch/i386_deb60/bin/barnowl
/mit/sipb/opt/barnowl/arch/i386_deb60 -> i386_deb50
(so that the project maintainer can replace it with a real build at
their leisure).
Anders
