[sword-devel] SWORD module installation bug

[Greg Hellings]

Troy,

Mine was with the version installed from Homebrew. It uses the 1.9.0
release tarball.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/sword.rb

--Greg

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 9:14 AM Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>
wrote:

> Thank you Gred and Tobias for the reports.
>
> Has anyone seen this happen using svn trunk? I can write up some tests to
> add to our test suite but it would be helpful to know if either of you have
> seen this with the most recent version. It is useful to hear that it was
> happening on rev 3873. That rules out the cause being what I've updated
> since then.
>
> Happy weekend! Praise the Lord for weekends,
>
> Troy
>
> On November 12, 2022 7:13:54 AM MST, Greg Hellings <
> greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just this week I was trying to install a few modules on a new (Mac)
>> system. Install went off flawlessly according to the installmgr tool, but
>> nothing was actually installed until I manually created the mods.d and
>> modules directory under the ~/.sword folder. The tool manually created the
>> ~/.sword/InstallMgr folder, but not the target installation folders.
>>
>> Not sure if these are symptoms of the same bug or not.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 04:03 Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have observed a bug with regard to SWORD module installation.
>>>
>>> I just tried to update existing modules by "installing them again" using
>>> InstallMgr::installModule().
>>>
>>> I ended up with a situation where the installation apparently finished
>>> ok based on return codes, but then I found the following:
>>>
>>> The *.conf files in the mods.d directory are still present, but the
>>> module contents under modules/texts/ztext are actually removed for the
>>> modules that I tried to update.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this behavior before? Is there an explanation?
>>>
>>> The modules are then still listed as installed, but there is no content
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I have seen this before at various times with individual modules, but
>>> did not report it. Now that I have this bug at a larger scale (for a
>>> bigger list of modules I tried to update) I felt like it's worth
>>> reporting.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Tobias
>>>
>>> PS: I have been using SWORD SVN Rev. 3873 (from Nov. 2021).
>>>
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