[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#468569: Bug#468569: no way to escape mailman/queue_files_present

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

tags 468569 pending
thanks

On Monday 8 December 2008 16:06, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:20:30PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > Hi Marcin,
> >
> > On Tue, November 25, 2008 14:04, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > > Obviously this is only useful for reinstalling the same version, or for
> > > disaster recovery, but I still think this is worth including.
> > >
> > > I have prepared a patch (attached). Before applying, do a:
> > > svn mv debian/preinst debian/preinst.in
> > >
> > > I hated to make the script a preprocessed file, but I could not find
> > > any better way of determining the currently installed version in
> > > preinst.
> >
> > Thank you for your work. However, I'm not enthusiastic to include it.
> > It's onyl useful in a small majority of cases, but adds quite some
> > complexity in the overall packaging...
>
> Can you be more specific? This use case (unattended disaster recovery)
> is important for me, so I can work on improving this patch.

I was not enthousiastic specifically about the rewriting of preinst, which I 
still consider to be hackish. However, I haven't found a better way to 
implement the desired functionality, so I have included it. Thank you for 
your help in this.

Furthermore I have also turned the debconf note into an option to continue the 
installation if the administrator thinks he can live with the results. I 
think this should satisfy most cases.

Of course the "best" solution would still be to actually detect whether there 
would be incompatibilities between the two versions, but we do not have a 
real solution to that currently.


cheers,
Thijs
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