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Burrow evolves | |
March 06th, 2018 | |
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Big thanks to christyotwisty [0] for daring to be the first person | |
to dive into the world of burrow with me. It was fun getting her | |
up and running and I picked up a few todo items as a result. She's | |
using burrow on the SDF cluster, which comes with a couple | |
complications. Still, I think we managed to get everything running | |
pretty quickly. | |
Some notes from the experience: | |
SDF Specific Stuff | |
- SDF umask settings are weird by default. Had to change those | |
to 022 to get her posts to show up automatically. | |
- PATH variables are also lacking by default. I carry my | |
dotfiles with me from system to system so I hadn't noticed. We | |
couldn't run "source" at one point because of it, though. | |
Burrow Specific Stuff | |
- Christy wants to add categories to her phlog. My phlog action | |
in burrow currently assumes a single directory and posts over | |
time or alphabetically (if you're weird). I'll have to think | |
about how best to add category support, or maybe tags? Hmm... | |
- There were some pain points in updating burrow when not | |
cloning the repo and using git commands. This led me to add a | |
new action to burrow: update-burrow. | |
"burrow update-burrow" will attempt to auto-update the | |
application. If you are running it from a local folder that is | |
a git repo, it'll pull the latest version of the repo. If you | |
have it in a local non-repo folder it will attempt to use cURL | |
to update each of the files in that directory that start with | |
"burrow" (the app, man page, and bash-completion). If you have | |
installed the app with "sudo make install" you'll need to run | |
"sudo burrow update-burrow" to update the app. It will not | |
update the man page or bash-completion, though... just the | |
app. If it gets a lot of use I may try to make it smarter and | |
update more, but for now it's a good-enough feature. | |
Oh, since it's sorta dangerous (as in it could break your | |
burrow install) I prompt for confirmation on this one. | |
- We needed to update the configuration file a bunch while | |
getting started. Remembering where that is can be confusing | |
for new users so I added another action: edit-config. | |
"burrow edit-config" will open up your configuration file. If | |
you don't have one it spits out a warning for now. I'll | |
probably have that prompt to create one instead in the future. | |
Perhaps that would be a good addition when I add the burrow | |
menu interface. For now, good enough. | |
Thanks again to christyotwisty. I'm looking forward to more phlog | |
posts from you. | |
[0] christyotwisty | |