Is It Worth Installing F9 Alpha? (upstart)

[John Summerfield]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:30:23PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>>> Here we come again to a "config" problem.  /etc/inittab is marked as
>>> a configuration file.  Even if that would get translated that would
>>> not help you at all as on the next update all these translations
>>> would be silently clobbered.  Those files likely should be even
>>> "config noreplace".
>> I don't see a problem with translating /etc/inittab when upstart is 
>> first installed.
> 
> You are clearly missing the point.  There are no essential problems
> with translating on the first installation.  There are troubles

What did I just say? Did you see "first installed?"

> with keeping those translations intact across upstart updates.
> Or you are proposing to keep /etc/inittab indefinitely as a kind
> of a "master" configuration and run those translations every
> time upstart is updated?  That does not sound very appealing.
> 
>> Having done the translation, hide 
>> inittab with the usual rename.
> 
> And what happens the next time when an update showed up?  Keep in
> mind that your translations are not marked as configuration files.

It's not the first time upstart is installed, and inittab is hidden by 
being renamed. Since it's hidden, it remains as documentation against 
the possibility the translation was inadequate.

It doesn't seem to me you're understanding what I'm trying to say.


> 
>    Michal
>