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Universal Install Script by XKCD – Combat Test

63 points by Artemis2 11y ago

empath75 11y ago
cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b4rsDCg1gCAJ:www.ocsmag.com/2016/04/16/universal-install-script-by-xkcd-combat-test/&num=1&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b4rsDCg...
- Artemis2 11y ago
  Wow, already down?! Someone get them a CloudFlare account!
  - kleptako 11y ago
    please, no more cloudflare
  - michalskop 11y ago
    CloudFlare is regularly blocking me (because of dynamic address I get from my provider; I have no real choice as I live in the country and not in a city) and being out-US, CloudFlare does not care at all. It is seriously the company I hate most at the net. There are so many alternatives to CloudFlare. Let's make the world a better place and use them.
    - lifthrasiir 11y ago
      > [...] There are so many alternatives to CloudFlare. [...] Please list them (especially, those that works for you) so that we can try.
marricks 11y ago
"Wow that's awesome! This could be a new defualt way to install!" Relevant xkcd, sort of aluded to kn the end, https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
hardwaresofton 11y ago
Yeah, this is just trying a bunch of different package managers to see which one will work first. When you run into a name collisions. If someone wanted to really make some sort of macro package manager (or package manager to end all package managers), that's one thing, but this script is just a mistake waiting to happen)
- mjevans 11y ago
  Actually it backgrounds /them all/; as the comic states in the caption text, failures can generally be ignored since one will have success.
  - hardwaresofton 11y ago
    But what if two succeed, but you only want one? As someone else noted... clearly that is the joke. I got the feeling from the article that someone was seriously trying this, but i must have missed some sarcasm
    - nkrisc 11y ago
      They were taking the joke to its conclusion to see what happened. I think the warnings that its not really a good idea indicates they well understand it's a joke to begin with.
- InclinedPlane 11y ago
  That's the joke. That's why it was an xkcd strip.
  - hardwaresofton 11y ago
    Yeah I must have missed the sarcasm in the blog post at the end...
jpswade 11y ago
https://gist.github.com/jpswade/b5907dbb7210812d941040b3ebfbc504 https://gist.github.com/jpswade/b5907dbb7210812d941040b3ebfb...
slavik81 11y ago
The line that attempts to build from source is designed to build the repository cloned from GitHub. It seems odd to remove the git clone and leave that in. BTW, if you have git 2.3 or newer you could just disable the password prompt like so: GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 git clone https://github.com/"$1"/"$1" $1 2>/dev/null
breadbox 11y ago
Feels to me like you could improve a lot of the noisiness by adding || (or) to the end of each line. So the script would stop trying things once it found something that worked. Then maybe you could reintroduce the git clone command -- coming near the end, it would rarely cause problems.
- CiaranMcNulty 11y ago
  I think you mean &&?
  - cec 11y ago
    No. && would cause the next command to begin once the previous had successfully completed. A successful install shoudn't start the next install attempt, hence ||. On the other hand, OP and this comment miss the beauty of Randall's implementation, which is each operation is launched asynchronously ('&'), so it isn't the case that you try a few approaches one at a time, i's that you try all approaches at the same time.

63 points by Artemis2 11y ago

cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b4rsDCg1gCAJ:www.ocsmag.com/2016/04/16/universal-install-script-by-xkcd-combat-test/&num=1&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b4rsDCg...

Artemis2 11y ago
Wow, already down?! Someone get them a CloudFlare account!
- kleptako 11y ago
  please, no more cloudflare
- michalskop 11y ago
  CloudFlare is regularly blocking me (because of dynamic address I get from my provider; I have no real choice as I live in the country and not in a city) and being out-US, CloudFlare does not care at all. It is seriously the company I hate most at the net. There are so many alternatives to CloudFlare. Let's make the world a better place and use them.
  - lifthrasiir 11y ago
    > [...] There are so many alternatives to CloudFlare. [...] Please list them (especially, those that works for you) so that we can try.

marricks 11y ago

"Wow that's awesome! This could be a new defualt way to install!" Relevant xkcd, sort of aluded to kn the end, https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/

hardwaresofton 11y ago

Yeah, this is just trying a bunch of different package managers to see which one will work first. When you run into a name collisions. If someone wanted to really make some sort of macro package manager (or package manager to end all package managers), that's one thing, but this script is just a mistake waiting to happen)

mjevans 11y ago
Actually it backgrounds /them all/; as the comic states in the caption text, failures can generally be ignored since one will have success.
- hardwaresofton 11y ago
  But what if two succeed, but you only want one? As someone else noted... clearly that is the joke. I got the feeling from the article that someone was seriously trying this, but i must have missed some sarcasm
  - nkrisc 11y ago
    They were taking the joke to its conclusion to see what happened. I think the warnings that its not really a good idea indicates they well understand it's a joke to begin with.
InclinedPlane 11y ago
That's the joke. That's why it was an xkcd strip.
- hardwaresofton 11y ago
  Yeah I must have missed the sarcasm in the blog post at the end...

jpswade 11y ago

https://gist.github.com/jpswade/b5907dbb7210812d941040b3ebfbc504 https://gist.github.com/jpswade/b5907dbb7210812d941040b3ebfb...

slavik81 11y ago

The line that attempts to build from source is designed to build the repository cloned from GitHub. It seems odd to remove the git clone and leave that in. BTW, if you have git 2.3 or newer you could just disable the password prompt like so: GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 git clone https://github.com/"$1"/"$1" $1 2>/dev/null

breadbox 11y ago

Feels to me like you could improve a lot of the noisiness by adding || (or) to the end of each line. So the script would stop trying things once it found something that worked. Then maybe you could reintroduce the git clone command -- coming near the end, it would rarely cause problems.

CiaranMcNulty 11y ago
I think you mean &&?
- cec 11y ago
  No. && would cause the next command to begin once the previous had successfully completed. A successful install shoudn't start the next install attempt, hence ||. On the other hand, OP and this comment miss the beauty of Randall's implementation, which is each operation is launched asynchronously ('&'), so it isn't the case that you try a few approaches one at a time, i's that you try all approaches at the same time.