On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:41:29AM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2012-12-13T10:31:55, Andrew Beekhof <and...@beekhof.net> wrote: > > > > We once moved the ocf-shellfuncs file, which didn't work out here when > > I thought we never did this sort of thing because we don't know how > > people are using our stuff externally. > > We did it in a backwards-compatible manner; or at least if the packagers > choose to, they could symlink the old location to the new one. (That is > the default for the included spec files, I think.)
Right. Whichever way some other RA may have used the shellfuncs, it would continue to work with the new package. That obviously needed to be supported. The old filenames were starting with '.' which is a precedent and not well received by all distributions. Thanks, Dejan > So yes, we try hard to never break updating. And to provide migration > over several releases. None of the functions changed names, all > variables still there, we don't drop agent attributes, that kind of > stuff. > > But copying a new agent that has the new path embedded obviously doesn't > work in the old environment. > > If you were trying to be snarky, I think this failed. ;-) > > > Regards, > Lars > > -- > Architect Storage/HA > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, > HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) > "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
