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Re: How does setup.exe cope with upgrading of already installed packages if there exist modification in installed files?
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:01:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: How does setup.exe cope with upgrading of already installed packages if there exist modification in installed files?
- References: <j7m7oe$72e$1@dough.gmane.org> <25jt97t858qgm15f1ot2b2m4vgjrq69aqo@4ax.com>
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 09:27 -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> This is up to each package maintainer. Current best practice - at least,
> as of a year or two ago when I asked about it on cygwin-apps I think - is
> to include:
>
> (1) a default config file in /etc/defaults/etc;
> (2) a preremove script that removes the existing config file iff it hasn't
> change from the default; and
> (3) a postinstall script that installs the default config into /etc if no
> other config file is already there.
>
> If all three of those are present, then a package upgrade will replace the
> existing config files if and only if they haven't changed since they were
> installed. If they have changed, then it's up to the user to merge the old
> and new configs.
>
> cygport provides automatic support for (1) and (3) above if you call e.g.
>
> make_etc_defaults /etc/lftp.conf
>
> To complete the set, package maintainers have to separately include a
> simple preremove script, e.g.
Actually, cygport handles (2) as well. No further intervention should
be necessary once make_etc_defaults is called.
Yaakov
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