#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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