Re: Rearranging Samba packages

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> writes:

> On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 01:04 +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>> I'm testing Samba 3.6.1 and would like to rearrange packages so that
>> net/samba would be the latest stable release rather than the oldest as
>> it is now. This means in particular that:
>> a) net/samba which is Samba 3.0.37 becomes net/samba30;
>> b) net/samba35 which is Samba 3.5.11 becomes net/samba to be updated to
>> Samba 3.6.1 soon (or later 3.6, if it happens in the middle).
>> 
>> Objections?
>
> Why not follow the postgresql approach?
> Then users get want they want and don't have to upgrade until their
> locked version is removed from pkgsrc due to us or upstream no longer
> supporting it.

Why follow it? PostgreSQL "approach" is a necessity since you didn't
have easy upgrade path until very recently. (And even now it isn't as
easy that you could just update, you still have to plan migration.)


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