[Olsr-dev] please revert " force copy the olsrd.conf file during install"

Ferry Huberts (spam-protected)
Tue Jul 3 17:20:29 CEST 2012



On 03-07-12 17:11, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> Regarding the overwriting of /etc/olsrd.conf, I think Debian has a good model for how to handle that:
>
> - if the file doesn't exist, install it
> - if the file exists, and the user says Y to overwrite, move the old
>    one to /etc/olsrd.conf.old
> - if the file exists, and the user says N to overwrite, install the new
>    one to /etc/olsrd.conf.new
>
> Or it could just happen automatically:
>
> - if /etc/olsrd.conf doesn't exist, install the new
>    one to /etc/olsrd.conf
> - if /etc/olsrd.conf exists, install the new
>    one to /etc/olsrd.conf.new
>

Red Hat / Fedora has an approach like the latter. They call the new file 
x.rpmnew

I'm voting for this setup with the filename as x.new


> .hc
>
> On Jul 3, 2012, at 10:12 AM, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:
>
>> Please can u test this patch:
>> https://github.com/zioproto/openwrt-packages-zioproto/commit/10f45dd513806f802a51eed0a8873f80664a3f8e
>>
>> it works for me :)
>>
>> Saverio
>>
>>
>> 2012/7/3 Jo-Philipp Wich <(spam-protected)>:
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>>>>> unless you replace 'install' with 'install_all'
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>>> In this case the Build/Install override is still needed because the
>>> default one executes "make install".
>>>
>>> define Build/Install
>>>         $(call Build/Install/Default,install_all)
>>> endef
>>>
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