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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:03:02AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> <snip>
> > We can have the general defaults be:
> >
> > 1. Never Restart
> > 2. Don't Restart unless spell hints restart is safe <-- default
> > 3. Restart unless spell hints restart is unsafe
> > 4. Always Restart
> >
> > Hint policy: if it breaks both on restarting and not restarting, default
> > to not restart.
> >
> > init scripts could have:
> > UPGRADE_SAFE="yes" to hint that restarting is ok (won't restart under 
> > option 1)
> > UPGRADE_SAFE="no" to hint restarting is not ok (will restart under option 
> > 4)
> > UPGRADE_SAFE undefined hints that restarting is going to be assumed to be 
> > not ok under option 2 (default), ok under option 3.
> >
> > Of course per-spell/during-configure selection would override this 
> > behavior.
> >
> > I assume that takes care of most anybody's concerns (besides it being
> > "more work"/"too much choice").
> 
> I'm assuming there'll be another Sorcery menu for choosing which
> default the user wants?

Yes, like the integrity checking menu.

> 
> How can we define 'safe'? Shall we assume that the user has been
> keeping up-to-date with all the prior updates so we only need to worry
> about when ++VERSION changes config file formats and not worry if user
> is on VERSION-{a couple of revisions or a major release}?

Yes.  It's only a "hint".

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