[Nut-upsdev] megatec and some changes to cmdvartab and new-names.txt

[Arnaud Quette]

2006/12/13, Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org>:
> Arnaud Quette wrote:
>
> > ok, wrong assertion from (I really don't sleep enough. Still waiting
> > for the baby to sleep at night ;-).
>
> As you probably knew from your first child, this tends to improve over
> time.

hopefully ;-)

> Curiously enough, when children reach the age of 16, this tends to
> worsen for a while again, until the time has come to leave the nest... ;-)

ok, only 14 years left so...

> > The control I've mentioned is in drivers/main.c
> >
> > 323         /* don't let the user shoot themselves in the foot */
> > 324         if (!strcmp(var, "driver")) {
> > 325                 if (strcmp(val, progname) != 0)
> > 326                         fatalx("Error: UPS [%s] is for driver %s,
> > but I'm %s!\n",
> > 327                                 confupsname, val, progname);
> > 328                 return;
> > 329         }
> >
> > but it's void in your mentioned case, since progname and
> > ups.conf->driver will be the same...
>
> In retrospect, the symlinking idea was flawed from the start. Sadly
> enough, the only way to make people modify their configuration files, is
> to break things (by removing the old drivers). Adding symlinks only
> delays this for a couple of revisions, so effectively there is no
> benefit at all.

exactly. that's what we've done before. The only thing is to maintain
a transition period (a stable branch with both drivers), and to
document the replacement.

Arnaud
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