#1301: Formaline should store the thornlist
Reporter: Ian Hinder Status: resolved Milestone: Version: Type: enhancement Priority: minor Component: Cactus
Changes (by Roland Haas):
status: resolved (was new)
Formaline should store the thornlist used to build the configuration. This will make it easier to reconstruct a working Cactus tree from the Formaline output.
**Keyword:** Comment (by Roland Haas):
Since thornlist is included in the tarball and the list of compiled thorns is also in formaline-jar.txt which contains both thorn names eg:
``` thorns/zlib="active" ```
as well as arrangements:
``` thorn_arrangements/zlib="ExternalLibraries" ```
all information is present.
Eg a:
``` awk -v FS='[/="]' '/^thorn_arrangements/{print $4"/"$2}' formaline-jar.txt ```
gets the thornlist required to compile (but not to checkout which Cactus does not know anything about). That latter one is only stored on the tarball.
I think there is direct need to add extra code for all conceivable cases of Formaline use if that leads to extra output files and extra code to maintain.
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