Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell
* Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> [140717 04:02]:
> On 2014-07-17 03:21:28 +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > * Arno Töll <arno@debian.org> [140713 13:25]:
> > > * Ignore the problem, and refer to the manpage of aptitude without
> > > proper fix etc. which clearly says "THIS OPTION CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS! DO
> > > NOT USE IT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING". The bad news is, we
> > > can't tell this before it's too late, such as in a NEWS file - and we
> > > know, everybody reads release notes too, right?
> >
> > I'm expressing support for this, and/or your second option.
> > Any non-trivial setup will need config changes anyway, and any sane
> > person already uses version control for /etc + config management for
> > such setups.
>
> Actually the problem is not the data loss. The problem is the upgrade
> failure.
My understanding was that the new apache binaries would install new
config files, and it would then work? (With the correct
replaces/breaks/...)
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