Can/should BOS be able to recognize the old style Bosconfig and either complain loudly, go with it, or convert it on the fly?
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 19:54 -0500, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > Andrew Deason wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:41:47 -0800 > > "Buhrmaster, Gary" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >>> Right, but if it is part of the initial 1.6 release, I think people > >>> will quite a bit more cautious then just replacing binaries anyway > >>> since it is a major version change then then a .x update. > >>> > >> Not all the people running openAFS will be as knowledgably > >> (even as to the numbering system of a 1.<even>) as the people > >> on this list. > >> > >> Many (linux) packaging systems will just replace older versions > >> without a discussion with the installer about what else they > >> need to change > >> > > > > I have faith in at least our resident rpm and deb packagers to give some > > notice. Also, downstream packagers can automate changing BosConfig to > > reflect a DAFS configuration, if they decide that the upgrade path > > should move to DAFS transparently. > > > > People that compile and install the binaries themselves ideally are a > > little more aware of what's going on (otherwise, why would they > > upgrade?). And you don't need to know about the even/odd numbering > > scheme, just that the 4 in 1.4 hasn't changed in a while. > > > I'm more comfortable with an rpm/deb that converts Bosconfig as part of > the pre-install routine. > > Would it be advantageous to have boserver read multiple files so that > you could have a dbserver and a fileserver packages and those package > would just insert the right config? > > Thanks, > Jason > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info -- ******************************** David William Botsch Programmer/Analyst CNF Computing [email protected] ******************************** _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
