Re: buggy checkout

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:35:42PM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
> Joe Orton wrote:
>
> >Issuing official package updates for a stable release[2] which break[1]
> >working installations does indeed defy the packaging policy.
>
> [2]Stable releases should not contain alpha releases of third-party
> packages.

I broadly agree.

> If you cannot figure out how to upgrade the repository in the
> post-install script for the RPM, you may not be as clever as other
> people think you are. ;)

Well, think about it: it would require doing things like a "find /" to
find all the repositories, and stopping any svnserves or httpds which
are using them before doing a dump/load on each, then starting the
daemons again. All from a %post script: not clever, indeed.

joe

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Received on Tue Jun 8 23:08:10 2004