Re: RFC Debian package upgrade with Config::Model
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Hi,
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 02:07:48PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
>Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes:
>> It seems obvious to me that upstream=author packager=packager, but
>> with "user" do you then mean a non-admin person or someone installing
>> and/or maintaining the system?
>
>It's often both. Imagine a desktop user, who just switched from
>Windows. He's the end user and has to do the admin for his machine, but
>he does not have the skills (yet?).
>
>For this kind of people, you don't expose choices unless absolutely
>necessary.
Agreed. But providing choice (as is what I proposed) does not
necessitate _exposing_ that choice by default.
Could be a medium or low urgency (or is it called "severity") debconf
question.
>There's indeed no need.
...which means above discussion is moot :-)
>I can either:
>- tweak config-edit so that temp files for upgrades are stored in
> /var/lib/config-model, something like:
> config-edit -save_for_upgrade # creates temp file
> config-edit -upgrade # use previous temp file
>- arrange for the dh-upgrader script to store temp files in
> /var/lib/config-model
>
>First option is probably the best as it would be valid across distros.
Is it sane to use /var/lib/config-model across distros?
Hey - is it even sane to assume that the tool is (only) a distro tool?
To me it makes sense to use at the distro level for Debian, but I can
imagine other uses than that too.
I imagine providing the distro routines completely separate from the
Config::Model libraries, to encourage alternative uses of the tool.
Even as a separate source package. As such, it makes better sense to me
to provide a debhelper script. How about calling it dh_config?
>> (I might come up with an even better candidate: while I am involved
>> in packaging icecast2 I do not really use it myself, so would not
>> really know what options would be relevant to handle)
>
>I'm all ears.
Ask me later - too much other work piling up at the moment... :-/
>PS: I've updated http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade with the
>first results of our current discussion. Some FIXMEs are still left.
Sorry, still haven't found time to fully dive into it. Please do ping
me later - and if not (long) before that, force me to look at it at
debconf.
Thanks for your work on this (to me) important mechanism!
- Jonas
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