Re: rotation.schedule bug

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Hi Tristan!

Thanks for the nice software :)

> Thanks for the email.  I am the creator of SaraB, yet I was not
> aware that it was included in any distributions.  It is exciting to
> hear that SaraB is in Gentoo, although I am not sure how it got
> there.  Do you know if SaraB is any other distros?

Sarab has been included in Gentoo in July by Matthew Kennedy
<[email protected]> who maintains the software there. Guess there
are others that also like the software :) I actually don't know if
sarab has been included in any other distro. I assumed that it is
available in SuSE from another post to this list, but I was probably
mistaken.

> As for the patch, it may not be necessary.  If you haven't heard,
> there is a fork of SaraB that will hopefully be released soon that
> improves on SaraB in everyway.  I am a co-developer of this new
> project, however the primary developer is a much better coder than
> I.  I will talk with him again about releasing it soon.

I have seen it being mentioned on the mailing list. But that was a
while ago, so I was not certain if the project is still alive. Good to
hear.

Nevertheless I would suggest to release an intermediate, patched
version of the original sarab. While the new version is probably much
nicer and has more features, the old version is a tested piece of
software. Since it only requires three or four minor patches I think
it would be real releasing 0.2.3 in addition to the new thing.

Cheers

Gunnar

>
> Thanks,
>
> Tristan Rhodes
>
> Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have been using sarab-0.2.2 for a while on Gentoo now. Since I am
>> using several archives I also created several rotation schedules. But
>> there is a bug in the rotation function that makes this impossible. I
>> attached a fix for it.
>>
>> Is there any chance that there will be a release of a 0.2.3 version?
>> Since sarab is included in several distributions it would be nice if the
>> accumulated patches would be made available as an official version.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Gunnar
>>  
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> diff -Naur sarab.orig/sarab.sh sarab/sarab.sh
>> --- sarab.orig/sarab.sh    2006-01-04 09:45:36.000000000 +0100
>> +++ sarab/sarab.sh    2006-01-04 09:49:43.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
>> function rotate {
>>     lines=$(cat $SARAB_ETC/$ROTATION_SCHEDULE | wc -l)
>> -    firstline="$(head -n 1 $SARAB_ETC/rotation.schedule)"
>> +    firstline="$(head -n 1 $SARAB_ETC/$ROTATION_SCHEDULE)"
>>
>>     # Copy all but the first line back into rotation schedule
>>     tail -n $(expr $lines - 1) $SARAB_ETC/$ROTATION_SCHEDULE > $SARAB_ETC/rotation.schedule.temp
>>  
>>
>
>

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