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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Done
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Resolution: Done
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: lsstsw
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Labels:None
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Story Points:4
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Team:Architecture
Description
Russell explained to me the advantage of having a specific eups tag associated with a given lsstsw installation. However, it would be very handy to have a way to get all installed packages automatically tagged as current as part of the installation process.
I suggest a "-c" option to lsstsw which will tag everything as current after the full installation is complete. This way, partially installed packages won't get marked current, and people who do full installations can not have to deal with having to say "-t bBLAH" every time they setup things.
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I think I recall a period of time when `rebuild -h` did not provide information about the available options. I'm completely happy with being able to use `-t` in `rebuild`, and knowing about that would have sufficed for this ticket when I filed it.
Changing the bespoke eups-copy-tags script to the supported eups tags --clone is probably worthwhile, though. I'll do that on another ticket.
The main advantage of -c was that rebuild -c is much shorter than rebuild -t current.
Yes. Making -c that a synonym for -t current seems like a nice thing to do, since it is arguably THE most common use case. But whatever works...docs for -t current is the main thing.
OK, if John, as the original reporter, is happy enough with a doc-only fix, I'll abandon my code branch.