Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>: > On Friday, March 28, 2014 5:44:48 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> I don't thing anything should need to upgrade config files. > > Strange thing to say. > There may be new config options.
The missing options should default to the old behavior. > The defaults may be altered with good reason. Occasionally, but the reason had better be *really* good. It is like changing a programming API. You live with your bad decisions. > And what apt does in this case is to drop you into some half-assed > interactive (so-called) mode saying some file has changed -- Do you > want to keep old, choose new, drop into a shell, or some other > half-baked options RPM won't overwrite modified config files but just places the new version there next to the old one under a different name (and gives a warning). RPM isn't perfect, but that is the sane thing to do. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
