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Re: Superseded packages
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Superseded packages |
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Sun, 11 Sep 2016 22:39:08 +0200 |
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Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:46:34PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > I'm not sure about Attic / Borg. Superseding attic will break
>> > automation, although I did that when I made letsencrypt inherit from
>> > certbot. Also, the authors are different. Advice?
>>
>> I would make Borg supersede Attic. However, if Borg does not provide,
>> say, an ‘attic’ command, which would make it incompatible by default, we
>> may want to change the Borg package to include such a command.
>
> There are other incompatibilities, for example in the repository format.
> Borg provides a `borg upgrade` tool that performs a one-way conversion
> of Attic repos to Borg repos. Just creating an 'attic -> borg' alias
> would not be enough; any automated backup scripts would still fail.
Then I don’t know. Either we mark Attic as superseded by Borg anyway,
or we need another mechanism to mark a package as “discouraged”?
Ludo’.
- Re: Removing the attic package, (continued)
- Re: Removing the attic package, Leo Famulari, 2016/09/04
- Re: Removing the attic package, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/05
- Re: Removing the attic package, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/09/05
- Re: Removing the attic package, Efraim Flashner, 2016/09/05
- Re: Removing the attic package, ng0, 2016/09/05
- Re: Removing the attic package, ng0, 2016/09/05
- Superseded packages, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/06
- Re: Superseded packages, Leo Famulari, 2016/09/10
- Re: Superseded packages, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/11
- Re: Superseded packages, Leo Famulari, 2016/09/11
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- Re: Superseded packages, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/23
- Re: Superseded packages, Leo Famulari, 2016/09/25
- Re: Superseded packages, Efraim Flashner, 2016/09/26
- Re: Superseded packages, Leo Famulari, 2016/09/27
- Re: Superseded packages, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/28
- Re: Superseded packages, Leo Famulari, 2016/09/28