[rt-devel] request for Makefile feature

[Feargal Reilly]

I hate say it, but the README is pretty clear - Upgrading is step 5b - you shouldn't be there without checking all the preceding steps first.
Upgrades mean changes - *always* find out what those changes are before committing to them.

-Feargal.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:53:47 -0700
Robert Shaw <rshaw at mxim.com> wrote:

> I agree with this a well. I burned on this from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1 because the
> Cookie module was switched from CGI to Apache. It would be good if the
> testdeps dies on install or upgrade.
> 
> -Robert
> 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:45:04AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > I think that the "make upgrade" target might do well to run testdeps
> > -quiet, and fail if dependencies are not satisfied.  Something like
> > this:
> > 
> > upgrade: checkdeps dirs config-replace upgrade-noclobber
> > 
> > checkdeps:           
> > 	$(PERL) ./tools/testdeps -quiet $(DB_TYPE)
> > 
> > should do nicely to prevent us from running into problems during an
> > upgrade which may introduce new dependencies unexpectedly.
> 
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-- 
Feargal Reilly,
Systems Administrator,
The CIA.

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