Re: preventing known-damaging third-party to fedora/epel package upgrade?

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On 07/12/2012 11:01 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> I would like to prevent this from happening. But since this only happens
> when  upgrading from a third-party 1.3 (which we don't ship) to a 1.4,
> even if I used triggers to work around the config file issue, the users
> would end up with a broken database setup anyway. I could address that
> with an auto-migration script, but then any accidental upgrade would be
> even harder for those people who wanted to remain on 1.3. to downgrade back.

Make backup copies of the config file and database before you migrate,
and print a notice in the %triggerun explaining the situation and these
new files?

~tom

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