Re: upgrade glitches with php, maybe

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2025-03-27 at 16:36 GMT, Greg Troxel wrote:

> 2) ask if my belief that a user-modified config file should never be
> deleted by pkg_* and pkgin is shared by others and believed to be how
> it is.

Yes this should not happen, but it's possible there are latent bugs when 
a package gets renamed and how that should be handled.  We don't often 
do this.

Ideally we should have Debian-style config file management where the 
user is prompted to merge in required changes, etc.  This would be a 
much better GSOC than MESSAGE files.

> Or is there some purge-harder mode invoked by pkgin when superceding?
> If so, I think that's a bug.

pkgin only ever calls pkg_install, so any bugs are there, not in pkgin 
(unless I'm using the wrong flags, of course).

I'm not a fan of the php change, I'm very worried that it's going to 
silently break many of my users if I ever update to it.  Would be nice 
if it could be made optional.

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