On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> New versions seem to be able to use old dumps.
This has been the most important :-)
> A simple script I use here to convert new format to old:
>
> sed \
> -e 's/type=/Id=/' \
> -e '/^label:/d' \
> -e '/^label-id:/d' \
> -e '/^device:/d' \
> #
>
> From what I could see, "Id" was changed to "type" in the body and
> various extra header lines were added. Al of those changes make the dump
> file unreadable by older versions.
>
> Is there any intention to support some sort of compatibility through an
> extra option?
I'm not sure if we really need (and want) to provide compatibility in
this way. Maybe we can add the sed command to the man page.
Karel
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