On Tuesday 26 March 2013 19:54:42 Fred Gleason wrote: > On Mar 26, 2013, at 11:27 07, Nathan Steele wrote: > > Sure would be nice to be able to install an old version from the repo's, > > though I can possibly understand why Fred wouldn't want that. > > Been there, tried that... > > The difficulty with multiple versions in the same repository is that > (naive) users will then try mixing different versions together at the same > site. In the past, that was a receipe for a corrupted database. While > recent RD versions do sanity checking to prevent the system from working > with a skewed DB version (and hence avoid that outcome), the result is > still a site with one or more workstations that "just don't work" with no > (obvious to them) reason. > > While I grant that there are occasionally situations where installing past > versions is useful, it's something that requires careful management by an > administrator who understands the dangers and implications --i.e. not > something that you really want in a repository that can be easily accessed > in a point and click fashion.
Hmm, could the old versions be kept on an ftp server so that they are not a simple apt or rpm command away but are still there for the digger? How hard would it be to create a little script that would examine the current rivendell setup and tell us if our proposed additional machine is safe? > > Cheers! > > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
