I'm not ignoring you, but today has been a bit busy! I will try to write something up and post it later today or tomorrow.
On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 7:13:08 PM UTC-5 matthew wall wrote: > On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 6:50:52 PM UTC-5 Peter Fletcher wrote: > > There were essentially no issues with the 4.x->5.x update. What I wasn't > prepared for was an update *from 5.01 to 5.02* clobbering everything *that > was previously working in 5.01*. I don't think that it is reasonable to > expect the user to carefully (re-)read all the documentation before > doing/allowing a 'second decimal place' update. > > > peter, it would be helpful if you could describe a bit more about your > configuration. > > are you running with hardware that required separate installation (e.g., > sdr) or hardware drivers or kernel modules? > > are you running multiple instances of weewd? > > are your reports all within a single directory tree, or are they scattered? > > did you implement the various report locations using symlinks, or is it > all explicitly declared within your weewx config file? > > did you have any issues with weewx integration to a local web server? if > so, how did you configure that? > > do you have ssh or other configurations for remote access that were > affected by the permissions changes? where are those located, and how are > they used? > > i'm working on a handful of adjustments to the deb/rpm packaging that will > hopefully avoid some of the issues you ran into. so description of systems > that are more extensive than just 'apt install' are very helpful. in > hindsight, we probably should have done the root-to-weewx change in the > 5.0.0 release, not a dot-dot. it was not until 5.0 went out that we > realized how many *more* issues there would be if some people end up with > weewx running as root while others run unprivileged. > > apologies for the disruption it caused. > > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/616a09d1-cd56-4796-901e-21ff9e25ab54n%40googlegroups.com.
