2008/9/12 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@xxxxxxxxxx>: > So to which directory do you want us to get backup? (...) All reasonable questions. I'm not suggesting the stock RPMs do any of this crazy stuff I am talking about... > So, IMHO what Fedora should do is to be able to install many versions > in parallel, and leave the rest of DBA work to the users. Yes. 200% agreed. And the OLPC XS team will craft special custom RPMs to run the upgrade in the field, estimating disk storage needs to avoid the disk-full situation, evaluating the success of the migration and subsequent steps. Now, once the 'many versions in parallel' thing works well, it does need a bit of glue to be nice and easy to write scripts that perform some actions on one PG install, and other actions on another PG install. That's the glue I am asking for. In other words... if I'm going to shoot myself in the foot, the gun better be nice and comfortable to hold :-) Debian has reasonably good glue/wrappers - with some problems, but they all have workarounds. They could be rewritten in Python or bash easily. As Tom points out, it'll be pretty nigh impossible to write a wrapper without _some_ issues so Fedora could at least be bug-compatible... cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
