Re: best way to announce important changes
Christoph Wegscheider <wegi@despammed.com> writes:
> Thanks for all answers
>
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>> Is it a conffile or just a configuration file?
> It is a configuration file (/etc/rsnapshot.conf) holding all options
> and backup points.
>
>> Depending on the severity of "not wanted", you could simply disable the
>> script until the configuration file has been fixed.
> I think that's the best solution, there will also be a shell script
> helping the user to migrate to the new config for some specific (but
> common) cases. Unfortunately it is not possible to automate the
> migration, as there might be cases where the user have to make some
> individual design decisions.
>
>
> Christoph
Can I suggest adding a 'CONFFILE_VERSION = 2.0' option to the file. On
future changes you can raise the expected version number and refuse to
run if the actual version number in the conffile differs to much.
MfG
Goswin
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