[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Thinking about 1.6

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

>> The package should recognize that an upgrade is happening and adjust
>> the bos configuration accordingly.

> How do you propose to automate that, given that the existing
> configuration could provide arbitrary arguments or even use arbitrary
> binaries for the various fs bnode commands?

By seeing if the configuration looks like a standard configuration that
can be safely updated and throwing a debconf error message with high
priority if the configuration doesn't match one of those models and looks
like it may break, telling the user that manual reconfiguration may be
required.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>