Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Ander Conselvan de Oliveira wrote:
>> Sorry for the noise, I sent the message early by mistake.
>>
>> Soon the version 1.4.2 for packages x11-server-common, and
>> x11-server-xorg should be available in cooker. These packages will not
>> have the symlink structure created in previous updates (i.e. /etc/X11
>> and /usr/lib/X11) and the installation will fail if these links exists.
>>
>> I wrote a script [1] to move files back to their appropriate
>> directory. This script should be ran before updating.
>>
>> [1]
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/uploads/b/b8/Move-things-back
>
> Thinking of the various cooker users who simply wont read this mail,
> would it be wise to include this in the actual package itself?
It is included already.
> I know this is only going to affect cooker->cooker updates and doesn't
> necessarily need to be in the package permanently for 2009.1, but it
> will probably save a while lot of hassle and follow up....
>
> If it is removed in say 3 months time from the package and we get some
> cooker users moaning that their upgrade broke we can deal with it then,
> but if it breaks for them that far in the future, the chances are they
> wouldn't have read this message either!!!
>
> WDYT?
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Anssi Hannula
