iBurrow evolves iMarch iBig thanks

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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

i

i  - SDF umask settings are weird by default. Had to change those

i    to 022 to get her posts to show up automatically.

i

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.

i

i  Burrow Specific Stuff

i

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...

i

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.

i

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.

i

i    Oh, since it's sorta dangerous (as in it could break your

i    burrow install) I prompt for confirmation on this one.

i

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.

i

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.

i

iThanks again to christyotwisty. I'm looking forward to more phlog

iposts from you.

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[0] christyotwisty

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