Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:37:31 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: BSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Configuration files after portupgrade horde and imp Message-ID: <20030903213731.GB19379@hal9000.halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <20030903171754.GA13343@graf.pompo.net> References: <3F55B8D1.7010502@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030903171754.GA13343@graf.pompo.net>
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Thierry, > This is a known problem, and unfortunately, I have not yet found a > satisfying solution. Usually, the configuration files of a release n > don't work anymore with release n+1. It's not clear from Heinrich's message, but if this was a major version upgrade, then a pkg-message saying that the original config files have been backed up would be appropriate. If you're overwriting the original config files on each install (as I suspect), then that is wrong. It would be appropriate to save distributed config files to another location - eg. .default, .dist or similar, perhaps with an informative pkg-message. > Actually, we would need a kind of mergemaster... Quite a few apps either know how to update their own configs or provide tools to assist. This is not really a ports issue. > Any better ideas or patches are welcome! I would try to offer a patch, but I don't know nearly enough about this port to help. It should be simple enough not to overwrite config files (and any other files an install should never touch) and to write a suitable pkg-message. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |
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