Sorcery Feature Menu
This page gives in-depth information about the various selectable freatures you can select for sorcery to use.
Feature |
Information |
Archive |
Archives all installed components of a spell so that if you decide to dispel the spell it can easily be recovered and "ressurrected." |
Autofix |
Has sorcery check for broken spells and fix them after a sorcery update. |
Autoprune |
Automatically removes old sources and installs cached sources upon sorcery update |
Cabal |
Provides a new sorcery menu that makes it easier to administrate users and groups on the machine |
CCache |
Caches the initial compilation of a spell so that upgrading the spell later on will be much faster |
Color |
When selected, cast and dispel show colored messages |
Config_loc |
Locally customizes spell configuration (e.g. "Do you wish to add -- options to ./configure? [n]") |
Gather_Docs |
Automatically gather miscellaneous documentation from spells (currently broken) |
Mail_Reports |
Email reports to address specified via Sorcery -> Option Menu -> Email of Sorcerer |
Patch |
Download and apply xdelta patches when available (none have been available for a while, we're working on adding some) |
Preserve |
Preserve modified files or back them up and overwrite with defaults |
Sound |
Play audio with prompts (theme sounds from smgl/sorcery-sound-*) |
Sustain |
Disallow dispelling of spells that would cause terrible malfunctions (according to /var/lib/sorcery/sustained) |
TMPFS |
Attempt to compile entirely in RAM |
View_Reports |
Prompt to view a report of the compilation |
Voyeur |
View compilation as it happens |
Reap |
Remove files installed by spell when dispelling |
Net_Select |
Use 'netselect' to try fastest mirrors first if 'netselect' is available |
Clean_Source |
Clean up source directories after failures |
Cross_Install |
Non-native installation / cross-compilation |