On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> It's become somewhat clearer. update-modules exits once it hits an
> error in a submodule. It doesn't go through all the submodules checking
> and reporting problems with each. Also I now understand "... found
> uninitialised submodule:" message is good. The problem lies only with
> the final submodule listed. Fix each in turn until no more appear, and
> then update-modules will actually update all the submodules.
>
> > There are no more replacement submodules planned as far as I know, so if you
> > want to start from fresh it's a good time (there is some possibility of
> > picking up new submodules for building the Perl modules and maybe even
> > ORAC-DR, but that shouldn't be as difficult to manage).
>
> I may be alright, now I understand more of what your script is doing and
> the messages it reports. I had looked at the prologue of
> update-modules, but it didn't indicate mention the "... found
> uninitialised submodule:" message was a sccessful outcome. As ever, I
> like things written down in my old age, so if I can't recall an
> incantation or how software works, I at least know where to look. (-:
I've added some additional description to the update-module prologue,
still not a war and peace like SSN/78, but hopefully a bit clearer.
Peter.
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