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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>:

> So I'm trying to re-work how web pages are handled (so I can have
> drupal update without wiping out my currently working setup) and am
> changing install_www_files (and drupal, since it sends it's own path)
> to install to $INSTALL_ROOT/usr/share/www/$SPELL-$VERSION. This will
> allow site admins time to work on updating their website to the new
> version without wiping their old config (e.g. /usr/share/www/drupal-5.9
> will continue to exist and be unmodified after drupal-6.3
> installs /usr/share/www/drupal-6.3).
>
> My current (and only) problem is that dispel will remove the old
> version's (e.g. /usr/share/www/drupal-5.9) files. I have tried adding
> the following regex's to grimoire/protected, but to no avail:
> ^/usr/share/www/.*
> ^/usr/share/www
> ^/usr/share/www/*.*
> ^/usr/share/www/.*/.*/.*
> ^/usr/share/www/.*/.*
>
> Some were just to test and see if *any* files were left alone, but they
> were not. I had drupal 5.9 installed, then updated to 6.3, and all of
> my unmodified 5.9 files were removed, so my website kerplunked. :/ I
> want our spells to not break an existing setup, as much as possible,
> and moving to versioned directories for websites is the best (since
> re-installing the same version will not overwrite modified files,
> thanks to install_www_files using install_config_files).
>
> Any ideas on how to get Sorcery to leave files behind as though they
> were protected, or to get an entire subdirectory under the protected
> group?
>
> Thanks,

No one knows how I might go about doing the above or what I might be  
doing wrong with Sorcery's protected mechanism?

-sandalle

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