-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 05:38 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Daniel Parks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hey all, I want to make the postfix package track releases and deprecate postfix-release. There are a couple of problems with this, which I've already mailed the list about ("Upgrading postfix"):
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I considered that. My main concern is that postfix-release-tls is too long to display in fink list, and -tls is nonstandard. Maybe this is a good argument for -ssl? I'm leaning toward postfix-release now.Why don't you just stick with the name postfix-release, and "deprecate" postfix?
Won't work; I tried it. The old version of Postfix will conflict with the postfix-release. I need a post-depend. Could I work around it by creating two new postfix packages (different versions), and having one (pre-?)depend on the earlier one? Isn't that just wonderfully nasty?Here's a way it could be done: Replace postfix by an empty package which depends on postfix-release. You'll need to make a versioned dependency, to a new version of postfix-release which does *not* conflict with the new postfix (although it could still conflict with old versions of postfix).
I'll give this a try when I get a chance.
The way I would handle the "deprecation" would not be to send email toRight, I would do that even if I did mail root. The reason the mail to root might work is that in the usage instructions, I told users to do:
root, which might not be seen by a lot of Fink users, but instead to
echo a message to the screen during post-install which says something
like "The postfix package is obsolete and can be removed; its functionality
is now supplied by postfix-release."
sudo niutil -createprop . /aliases/root members youremail
Maybe I shouldn't have done that. Anyway, I do think that emailing people from a package install is a wee bit Wrong.
If, at some point in the future, we do get the epoch support, you could change the name to postfix at that time.
Makes sense. Thanks for your help. Daniel - -- Moderation in all things, but most importantly, in moderation. My PGP public key: http://mwdesign.dyndns.org/~daniel/publickey.txt Don't use PGP? Check out http://www.pgpi.org/doc/whypgp/en/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE+FT+VxIklpV9nwSURAkxWAJ9KxpsSfMrxj+P+yH7E6lSqzLZYIQCfScz0 KQXsXHcPxRXAJDnUzQAhz10= =rrd+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
