patch/pull

[Nemo]

To make things easier when new versions of patch(1)
are deployed, I changed /rc/bin/patch/pull so that it checks out
if there are newer versions available for /rc/bin/patch or not.
If there are, the tool suggests commands to update them by hand.

I won't create patches for patch() because that would be racy or
would require patch to be more complex to move out of the way while
updating.

So, hopefully for the last time, you should do this by hand, because
no patch is ever going to include this change:

9fs sources.lsub.org
cp /n/sources.lsub.org/nix/rc/bin/patch/* /rc/bin/patch

Sorry I didn't cover this case before, I should have noticed sooner.

hth

PS: this relies on availability of /bin/up, but up(1) was
applied while testing the patch tools, so that should not
be a problem.

[Jeff Sickel]

Easier maybe, but I seem to have gotten something wrong on my
recent pull (hget .../nix.tgz):

term% patch/pull
post...
post...
grep: can't open /n/dist/dist/patch/applied: '/n/dist/dist' does not exist
patch/apply creep
touch: /n/dist/XXX: cannot create: '/n/dist/XXX' mounted directory forbids creation
no permission to write /n/dist
apply failed

This is when running startvx (or `9vx.OSX -r . -u glenda`) on a fresh (~5 hours ago) nix tree.

[erik quanstrom]

i'll admit to paying poor attention since i have
pressing things going on, so i hope i'm not missing
the obvious, but are there instructions for
pulling down a nix tree in a parallel work space?

- erik

[David du Colombier]

> term% patch/pull
> post...
> post...
> grep: can't open /n/dist/dist/patch/applied: '/n/dist/dist' does not
> exist patch/apply creep
> touch: /n/dist/XXX: cannot create: '/n/dist/XXX' mounted directory
> forbids creation no permission to write /n/dist
> apply failed

This problem was fixed yesterday. You should update patch:

9fs sources.lsub.org
cp /n/sources.lsub.org/nix/rc/bin/patch/* /rc/bin/patch

--
David du Colombier

[Nemo]

patch requires being able to
write. I bound the root at /n/dist.
it's fixed but I'll try to see if there's
a better way. as it is now you will
have to do a bind if there are changes at /.

--
iphone kbd. excuse typos :)

[Jeff Sickel]

Thanks, I did a fresh pull this morning.

The timing of the nix.tgz creation may have overlapped the fix to patch.