On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 04:51:37 -0700 (PDT) mwall <[email protected]> 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 > dpkg-reconfigure offers Metric vs Imperial measures (whatever they might be called) However, Metric installs METRICWX, not metric, with the wind speeds in m/s. I've tried it twice more to be sure that dpkg-reconfigure is the responsible part. Liz -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
