[Yum-devel] Config file migrations for 3.1.x

[Tim Lauridsen]

James Bowes wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>   
>> I can see a few options:
>> 1) Bail on moving things.  Kind of sucks as moving things would get us a
>> lot more consistency.  
>> 2) In the %post of the yum package, move everything around.  This breaks
>> verification of the packages containing repo files and leads to lots of
>> rpmnew junk peppered across the filesystem
>> 3) In the %post of the yum package, just move the config file.  Ensure
>> that we look at both /etc/yum/repos.d and /etc/yum.repos.d.  Packages
>> that contain repo configs need to deal with managing their own
>> migration.
>> 4) ???
>>     
>
> I like 3. I don't think we want to mess with files that come from other
> rpms. What we should do is write a good script bit for %post, and make
> it available for the packagers of these repo configs.
>
> We could also spew out a warning when a file is in the old location.
> This might help spur packagers along but will probably just result in
> many duplicate bugs upon your plate, Mr. Katz.
>
> -James
>   
+1

Tim