Re: Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 vs. 7.1 (was: latest version?)

Lamar Owen writes:

> In the environment of the general purpose OS upgrade, the RPM's
> installation scripts cannot fire up a backend, nor can it assume one
> is running or is not running, nor can the RPM installation scripts
> fathom from the run-time environment whether they are being run from a
> command line or from the OS upgrade (except on Linux Mandrake, which
> allows such usage).

I don't understand why this is so.  It seems perfectly possible that some
%preremovebeforeupdate starts a postmaster, runs pg_dumpall, saves the
file somewhere, then the %postinstallafterupdate runs the inverse
operation.  Disk space is not a valid objection, you'll never get away
without 2x storage.  Security is not a problem either.  Are you not
upgrading in proper dependency order or what?  Everybody does dump,
remove, install, undump; so can the RPMs.

Okay, so it's not as great as a new KDE starting up and asking "may I
update your configuration files?", but understand that the storage format
is optimized for performance, not easy processing by external tools or
something like that.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/