* Dag Wieers dag@wieers.com [2006-09-05 15:35]:
As a default, the setup.py could install it at /etc/pytonerc.default.
... Excellent idea!
@Dag: I have for every version of pytone a pytonerc in /etc and a link to the currently used. Before every update I remove the link ... simple as that ;-)
I do that now as well on all my systems, after having had the problems. But it requires an action from the user before doing an upgrade or you may loose your old working configuration. That's an unacceptable situation imo.
There is no warning, no user-interaction, nothing. It just overwrites the file...
... Point taken - I agree with you ... I just wanted to notice that I'd still like to know if something changes in the config ;-)
Luckily the whole problem does not exist in Gentoo since the files in /etc are protected and run through a diff-proces anyway.
Also if you install from subversion ? Because I don't mind, RPM packages will not replace files in /etc either (unless you tell them to) but the problem always happens to me from subversion.
... Until now I only use ebuilds and not subversion. As above said it's about the changes I want to know ...
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
Greetz Stefan -- Stefan Wimmer swimmer@xs4all.nl