On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:20:47AM +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > Hi! > > I want to pick your brains about something, if I may. > How do you handle a port update (like eg. postgresql) as a maintainer, > if the new version is not compatible with the older versions' data > files? I can see that with every major version postgresql update, there > is a warning to dump/restore. But it always seemed futile to me to > display a warning that a dump would have been necessary, after that fact > that the package has been upgraded (and I don't the old binaries).
The way it's done for postgresql (ie @ask-update in PLIST), the question is showed _before_ actually upgrading anything. So that when you see it, you make a dump, answer 'y', and then restore the dump after the upgrade. Landry
