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Re: [Nmh-workers] The third release candidate of nmh is now available
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Kevin Cosgrove |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] The third release candidate of nmh is now available |
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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:46:17 -0700 |
On 3 June 2012 at 11:17, Jerrad Pierce <address@hidden> wrote:
> mts.conf is fairly important but rarely touched,
> so people may not recall what options they had set
> to get things working.
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> I think clobbering it is bad. If not preserving
> the original, can we make the clobber happen late
> in the install and cat the current file to STDOUT
> for anyone who overlooks the "we don't do the normal
> thing with config files on upgrade" warning?
Kinder handling of "clobbering" is one reason I used a packager, in
my case RPM, for build & install of my software. Another reason is
that it allows me to revert to a previous version without too much
pain.
FWIW....
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Kevin