[Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed packaging help needed

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> That is bullshit unless you actively remove things from the
> tarball in which case you'd need different gnumed-server
> packages for bootstrapping and upgrading. You can upgrade to
> any version between what-I-have and latest-in-the-tarball.

Ahh, you mean that the SQL code contained in the tarball
enables installing server versions < the latest version.
OK.  If you ask me I would ask the user: Do you want to
upgrade / install the latest version? [Yes/No]  If the
answer is different from Yes I would notify the user that
he should continue from here manually.

> Of course, it may be another reasonable design decision to
> only support upgrading to the latest version in the tarball
> which then needs to be clearly documented again.

IMHO this is what I wrote above.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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