Yes, that is what I did with the more extensively modified version of Seasons I use for my public site, but the version I use locally just had some minor tweaks, so I didn't change the name, and apt appears to be handling it as I would wish and as mwall describes (though I have never touched conffiles, so the default for weewx may have changed).
On Friday, April 2, 2021 at 5:56:42 PM UTC-4 vince wrote: > FWIW, it's more work but a generally better way to approach essentially > forking things in core weewx is to create your own skin based on some > starting point, disable the skin that comes with weewx, and enable your > custom skin that has a different name. Bonus points if you make your > custom skin installable with wee_extension. > > That keeps you safe from your modifications being altered by a future > weewx update, as weewx won't stomp on things that didn't come with weewx. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/8c1adc43-7a38-4603-b8b3-d172210421fcn%40googlegroups.com.
