[Xastir-Dev] 1.2.0 patches for datadir, pkglib, xastir.spec.in

[Alan Crosswell]

I know you won't like this answer, but when using RPM's and upgrading an RPM, 
this just works since RPM has the complete list of old files to delete, new 
files to add, and config files to keep.

Now for the rest of the world, I think a script just to clean up would do the 
trick (invoked by the make install rule).  Let me know if you want me to cobble 
this together.
/a
PS: I really don't get the point of those placeholder files.

Curt Mills wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ok.  So can you specify where things will go if you don't provide
>>command-line flags or use the spec file?  Same as always?
> 
> 
> Looks like a bunch of them are different, marked with '*' below:
> 
> 
>   /usr/local/bin/xastir
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/config/language-Dutch.sys
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/help/help-Dutch.dat
> * /usr/local/lib/xastir/Coordinate.pm
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/symbols/symbols.dat
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/doc/AUTHORS
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties/placeholder
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/fcc/placeholder
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/placeholder
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/GPS/placeholder
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/placeholder
>   /usr/local/man/man1/xastir.1
> * /usr/local/share/xastir/sounds/placeholder
> 
> 
> I have no problem with the new default locations, but how do we
> easily get users to migrate?
> 
> It's not a problem for new users.  For existing users, changing the
> default locations means that the software will be installed in two
> places, and will be looking in the old location for files because of
> the xastir.cnf file.
> 
> So... It'd be great to migrate users to the new scheme.  Do we have
> the software auto-migrate them when they do an upgrade?  It'd
> require code to check for the new files and tweak xastir.cnf for the
> new locations, perhaps also asking the user to delete the older
> directories.
> 
> Any easier methods?  A migration script that would edit xastir.cnf
> directly and then ask if it could delete the old directories?
>