FC5 & RT

Jeff Voskamp javoskam at uwaterloo.ca
Wed Sep 13 15:25:58 UTC 2006


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 10:02 -0400, Jeff Voskamp wrote:
>   
>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 09:14 -0400, Jeff Voskamp wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> FC6t2 extras has a much newer version of RT - 3.6.1 vs 3.4.5.
>>>>         
>>> Yes, the version in FE6 is ca. 8 months newer, but is incompatible to
>>> 3.4.5 - Which is the reason why it is not in FE5 ;)
>>>
>>>       
>    
>   
>> It does seem to be LSB compliant though.
>>     
>
> The only major packaging difference is the FE6 version having moved it's
> html pages to /usr/share/* - Whether this qualifies it as more LSB
> compliant is arguable. It matches better into FE's preferences, that's
> true. Whether switching to this layout for the FE5 variant at this point
> in time is good idea is questionable, because it would be a major
> changes and is not unlikely to kill customizations users might have
> applied.
>
> The main incompatibility however is the db-format being used.
> The db-format being used by 3.6.1 is incompatible to 3.4.5, and
> automatically converting them is hardly possible through rpm.
>   
db format is compatible, but there is some content to be added on a per 
user basis - little things like
screen layout and default searches. It's easy to tell the post-install 
script we're updating the package - how do we find out the old version 
number?

Time to check the few notes I made on the "hand made" upgrade.
>> Eventually we'll be moving our main RT there, so I should start making 
>> notes.
>>     
>
> Contributions welcomed.
>
> Ralf
>   
Jeff




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