On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've got a large stack of interdependent packages that will be all > changing $sysconfdir to /etc/opt/csw. I don't see a clean way to > handle this move short of manually removing all of the packages and > then adding them back. [Some packages register things in files > provided by other packages, etc.] > > If I provide detailed instructions on the ordering of these > operations, is that sufficient for our user base?
It sounds "highly complex". yikes. 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. You might provide the migration script, as part of the "highest level"(if there is one) package. possibly in the "docs" dir, along with an explaination there of why it is neccessary. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
