[Coco] Trying to find SuperDriver and HDB-DOS

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 15 September 2013 10:13:42 Tormod Volden did opine:

> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > For my own convenience at keeping all 3 of those related packages up
> > to date, this linux script might serve as a model for something
> > similar if you are running windoze.
> > -------------------------------
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # since I'm always forgetting to sudo...
> > if [ `whoami` != 'root' ]; then
> > 
> >         echo
> >         echo "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
> >         echo "this script needs to be run by root"
> >         echo
> >         echo
> >         exit 1
> > 
> > fi
> > mv lwtools lwtools-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M)
> > hg clone http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/hg/ lwtools
> > cd lwtools
> > make
> > make install
> > cd ..
> > echo
> > echo
> > echo "lwtools has been built, next is toolshed"
> > echo
> > echo
> > chown -R gene:www-data lwtools # make visible to the web
> > mv toolshed toolshed-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M)
> > hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/toolshed/code toolshed
> > cd toolshed
> > make -C build/unix install
> > cd ..
> > chown -R gene:www-data toolshed # make visible to the web
> > echo
> > echo
> > echo "toolshed has been built and installed, next is nitros9"
> > echo
> > echo
> > mv nitros9 nitros9-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M)
> > hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9
> > cd nitros9
> > hg update lwtools-port # this step is temporarily needed
> > export NITROS9DIR=$PWD
> > mkdir dsks # this step is temporarily needed
> > make dsk
> > make dskcopy
> > cd ..
> > chown -R gene:www-data nitros9
> > echo
> > echo
> > echo "this completes the build of lwtools, toolshed, and nitros9"
> > ---------------------------------
> > If you are using linux, save whats between the long dashed lines as
> > getnitros9, then do as root, a "chmod +x /path/to/getnitros9" and then
> > execute it, as root.
> 
> The superuser police called and said that you should do as little as
> possible as root, in particular not run other people's scripts.
> Everything like downloading, building etc is a normal user task and
> should be run as a normal user. Only if you need to install something
> in a system directory you will need superuser powers, typically "sudo
> make install". Otherwise you will spiral down in a "Windows
> Administative rights"-like dependency hell and pull out all your gray
> hairs before you eventually have to reinstall to recover. Look up the
> script author's older post for examples ;)
> 
> Then the bandwidth police called with tears in their eyes and told
> people to not "hg clone" every day. If you already have done a "hg
> clone" (which downloads 30-40 MB every f. time), you should use "hg
> pull" which only downloads the new changes if there are any.
> 
> Tormod

Chuckle.  Probably correct on both counts.  I keep backup copy's for 3 or 4 
generations back, and I admin my own web page, which does take root priv's 
to do since part of my security model is keep all perms for web accessible 
stuff limited to what the web server has any business serving up.

With 4 Tb worth of drives in this machine, it doesn't bother me to have 
multiple copies of nitros9, and I probably have a dozen or more running 
back a decade or so.  Its been known to be handier than bottled beer 
occasionally.  I also have a cable ADSL 10 megs down, 2.5 up.

Third, I got plumb tired of trying to do an hg pull, and having it 
overwrite whatever I might have patched.  Something major, I try to do a 
push since I supposedly have rights, but sourceforge will take my password 
once, then decide to bounce it for several months running.  Sourceforge's 
inability to mirror a projects password list to every machine that can 
access the project is a legend, one that I find a right PIMA.  And it sure 
doesn't encourage me to push every time I cross a t.  Life, what little of 
it I have left at my age, is too short to put up with a buggy hg 
configuration at sourceforge.

Cheers, Gene
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
My web page: <http://gene.homelinux.net:6309/gene> should be up!

Tehee quod she, and clapte the wyndow to.
		-- Geoffrey Chaucer
A pen in the hand of this president is far more
dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of
         law-abiding citizens.