BEWARE upgrading Horde System

[dick hoogendijk]

On 09 Apr Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> >OK, I must admit that I don't know how to handle properly installation /
> >configuration / deinstallation / reinstallation of the Horde's ports.
> 
> IMHO, if you applied the following to get rid of the behaviour, that would 
> fix things ... and, IMHO, that is the only thing that *is* broken with the 
> port ... I install from ports, for applications like Horde, to make sure 
> that all dependencies are in place ...
> 
> diff -c files/pkg-install.in.orig files/pkg-install.in
> *** files/pkg-install.in.orig   Sun Apr  9 07:56:56 2006
> --- files/pkg-install.in        Sun Apr  9 07:57:24 2006
> ***************
> *** 101,117 ****
>               chown -R $hordeusr:$hordegrp $hordedir || exit 1
>           fi
> 
> -         if [ -z "${PACKAGE_BUILDING}" ]; then
> -             # Don't reset the config to default (PR ports/88621)
> -
> -             for cf in `ls %%HORDEDIR%%/config/*php`; do
> -                 if [ -f $cf.previous ]; then
> -                     mv $cf $cf.new
> -                     echo "--->   $cf not installed ***"
> -                     echo "--->       please copy from $cf.previous ***"
> -                     echo "--->                or from $cf.new      ***"
> -                 fi
> -             done
> -         fi
>         ;;
>   esac
> --- 101,105 ----
> > Maintainership is now available.
> >-- 
> >Th. Thomas.

Given this solution I can hardly think Thierry still gives up his
maintainership on the horde port. As I see it, this coop is great.
And although I partly agree with Ted on his amateur/prof approach it
must be said that it was *not* the issue. Overwriting config files was.
And it *is* a bad habit to do so ;-)

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