Hi Yann,

(moving to maintainers@)

Am 15.01.2013 um 00:00 schrieb Yann Rouillard <[email protected]>:
> I want to release a new openssh package which includes the rename, however I 
> have to take care of preserving configuration and smf state.
> 
> This is done through cswinitsmf and preserveconf classes however they store 
> information in /etc/csw/opt/PKGNAME and as I will change the name of the 
> package, it will not work (and I verified this).
> 
> I want to update the action scripts to handle this case but I would need the 
> information about obsoleted packages available in the scripts.
> 
> I think one way would be to add them in the pkginfo file so I can easily 
> retrieve them through environment variables.
> 
> I think we should also need a way to disable this mecanism as it may probably 
> happen that this behavior is not desired in some cases.
> 
> What do you think about this issue ? Do you see a better way to solve this 
> problem ?

Sounds reasonable. I could add
  OPENCSW_OBSOLETES=CSW<oldpkg>
in pkginfo which should then picked up in addition to the real package name in 
cswinitsmf.


Best regards

  -- Dago

-- 
"You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to 
do something,
and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896

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