-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09-06-2005 20:27, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>>now that sarge is released with one of the most well tested versions of >>>lessdisks, please consider updating lessdisks to the current released >>>version, 0.6.2d, or the current cvs (0.7 branch pre-release: Tue Jun 7 >>>22:32:49 UTC 2005), which is very close to a release. >> >>I'd really like a way to handle upgrades. Or at least know when an >>upgrade is possible and when not. > > > i've been considering this issue over the past several days- it's very > important. i'm starting to realise that upgrades from the 0.5 branch to > 0.6 and greater are really difficult to do right, largely because a lot > of configuration information was moved from the server-side > configuration file to the terminal-side configuration file. but maybe > it's not as bad as i think. > > i think 0.6 was smart in moving more into the terminal, as upgrades from > 0.6 to future versions will be much easier to handle correctly, and > makes the server-side and chroot-side versions of packages less > inter-dependent on similar versions (my eventual goal will be to have no > inter-dependencies on particular versions, and i think current cvs is > much closer to that goal).
Sounds good (and sounds like it is worth the wait not releasing 0.6 for Debian at all). > the main issues i see with upgrades beyond the leap from 0.5 to 0.6 are > that a number of configuration file and debconf values have been > re-named (and worse, some have changed purpose). > > renamed configuration/debconf values should be easy enough to detect and > update to the new value. the other issues are more difficult to handle, > and *concrete* ideas on how *exactly* to handle it would be useful, and > of course, code handling it would be ideal. I know. I have been packed with work lately :-( > p.s. should i drop your email in my replies, as the bts should be > sending you this mail anyways? Yes, please do. Should I do so as well (I thought the BTS always sends to the participants of each bug, but apparantly not: I have had complaints in the past when responding to the bug only). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCqJNyn7DbMsAkQLgRAh/bAJ0cAhgEOAETPtXUnM0OSPAIa2JeIwCgpgcH W5RvwP4sG6E497w6tbs7+UM= =2A9j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
