Re: Freshen

Michael Homer <michael <at> gobolinux.org> writes:

> 
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Egil Brendsdal <egilb <at> ife.no> wrote:
> > Is 'Freshen' still a working program? I tried it and was kindly asked
> > to send the error report...
 
> I think this means your Scripts/Compile are much older than your
> Freshen and will need to be upgraded first. It's actually a bug in its
> detection of whether that's happened, but what you need is a
> post-Aliens (c. 2010) version of the tools.

Scripts was compiled from the svn-repository and should be up-to-date.
Compiling Compile turned out to be hard, e.g. installing UnionFS-Fuse 0.25
fails with the error message

  unionfs.c:661: error: 'AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW' undeclared

I guess some dependencies are missing in the recipe.

> As far as working goes, I don't know of anything that would have
> broken it, but when there are large numbers of upgrades from a long
> period to apply it tends to cause other things to break if you tell it
> to install them. It should definitely list updates, and even install
> them if you're careful.
> -Michael
>