I have always installed via setup.py - can I switch by just using apt-get or will I end up with two installations in two different places - one my existing setup.py in /home/weewx and one somewhere else? Is it possible to make apt-get use the existing installation, skins and .conf files??
On Friday, 14 October 2016 14:51:37 UTC+3, mwall wrote: > On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 6:36:25 AM UTC-4, Liz wrote: >> >> Just trying the upgrade through this system. I have got to diff the >> files and find the essential parts of the weewx.conf that I have to >> change, and those I have to retain. >> I can do that, but for a lot of our users this is a big degree of >> difficulty. >> >> I'd suggest that the post-install script looks at essentials which need >> changing in conf files and does those. >> > > liz, > > could you provide more detail about the process you went through so i can > duplicate the behavior? > > there is already logic in the pre/post scripts that *should* upgrade the > weewx.conf file when you do a .deb upgrade (using dpkg or apt). when it > encounters changes to weewx.conf, it *should* do the standard debian > prompts about changed files. > > m > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
