Webconf Password

Hi Folks

for some reason the list manager keeps me off this list because it 
thinks I am offline because there were a number of bounces which never 
get reset.

So here is my opinion about whatever issue you may have with upgrade, be 
it the webconf password or other.

The upgrade command tries to be smart to keep your personal settings 
intact. It does this by comparing the the files marked as configuration 
files in the system, registering the changes between the currently 
running configuration file and the original (old) configuration file and 
trying to apply any changes to the newly installed configuration file. 
If everything runs fine, these changes are written to configdb.

The main problem for this is that uplink the configuration file format 
changes frequently which leads to patching errors. The upgrade utility 
has a never used facility to handle such situations, it is called the 
post-upgrade script and it can handle situations that cannot be met by 
simpy comparing and patching. Unfortunately the LEAF project never had 
sufficient manpower to fully test such features.

If the patching of the configuration file fails because the differences 
are too big or the file format has changes considerably this process 
fails and the corresponding files are written to the /tmp directory with 
hopefully reasonable names like .old .new and .current. It is the users 
responsability then to inspect these files and apply any changes 
manually. The upgrade process issues a warning at least on the command line.

This at least is the state it used to be when I was still working on it.
So much for artificial stupidity be it on the list manager or on the 
upgrade tool.

So as I may never see this post myself please mail me directly if you 
have issues with this to erich.titl(AT)think.ch

cheers

ET

-- 
„Wer von seinem Tag nicht zwei Drittel für sich hat, ist ein Sklave.“
―Friedrich Nietzsche



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