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