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[Arjan Bouter <abouter AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, 19 May 2011 14:30:47 -0700
Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 15:01 -0500, David Kowis wrote:
> > I'm thinking about updating the existing maradns spell to the 2.0
> > version, and creating a deadwood spell as well.
> > 
> > However, it's not backwards compatible and an upgrade path would surely
> > require manual intervention.
> > 
> > The question I pose:
> > 
> > Should I create a maradns2 spell, or just upgrade the original maradns
> > spell and put a big fat warning, if you're upgrading requiring manual
> > assent that you're ready to update your stuff?
> > 
> > Should I hear nothing, I'll go with the latter (big fat warning option).
> 
> Or do what ruskie did for dovecot 2.x upgrade: big fat warning if
> upgrading, and don't upgrade until the user says 'y' and dovecot is
> updated.
> 
> -sandalle
> 
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Yep, that's probably the best way to handle this.
Like what happened with the switch to ifupdown and the dovecot upgrade.

Arjan Bouter

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