[csw-maintainers] interdependent packages moving to /etc/opt/csw

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Wed Sep 16 20:48:42 CEST 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Wed Sep 16 14:33:17 -0400 2009:
>
>> I would suggest that,for the sake of our users, you provide some sort
>> of migration script, that first verifies everything is at the minimum
>> level required (or does a "strings xyz" to see that the paths have
>> changed), and then does the neccessary backflips. Or bombs out with
>> appropriate error messages, if not up to date.
>
> This sounds reasonable.  I'll put something together and make it
> available.  I don't think it should go in any one ofhe packages
> though, since it's of limited future value.
>


well, consider keeping it in a package,for a year then?

People do go a year without updates. and it's really nice to have it
all there with the packages.



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