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