On 3 June 2012 at 11:17, Jerrad Pierce <[email protected]> wrote: > mts.conf is fairly important but rarely touched, > so people may not recall what options they had set > to get things working. > > I think clobbering it is bad. If not preserving > the original, can we make the clobber happen late > in the install and cat the current file to STDOUT > for anyone who overlooks the "we don't do the normal > thing with config files on upgrade" warning?
Kinder handling of "clobbering" is one reason I used a packager, in my case RPM, for build & install of my software. Another reason is that it allows me to revert to a previous version without too much pain. FWIW.... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
