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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:12:12 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Cc: "Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Review request
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:08:11 -0800 "Larry Scheer"
<larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:

> Tim, Andy,
>     I will be using the descr file with system upgrade to identify
> files that upgrade doesn't need to replace. This file was used in the
> BSD upgrade for this purpose and I am porting that functionality to
> cougar and bobcat Linux. How this file was used in the BSD release
> was any file tagged as services or config was not upgraded unless the
> file didn't exist on the disk in this case it was installed if it was
> missing. In Linux I added a tag called ignore which means if the file
> doesn't exist don't install it. 

Uh, why would such a thing be needed?  If it's never to be installed,
it shouldn't be on the upgrade list or in the tarball, ja?

> If you can think of any config files I might have left out, let me
> know
> 
> My workspace /home/larrys/perforce/trees/dev  is local to
> linux-compile (10.0.0.143) and is mounted on ripper.
> This p4 client is larrys-r14-dmip
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry
>     
> 
> Change 27484 by larrys@larrys-r14-dmip on 2008/01/28 07:30:05
> *pending*
> 
>         The mysterious descr file is used by system upgrade to prevent
> replacing
>         system configuration and other files during the software
> upgrade process. 
>         This change renames descr to descr-ch (for cheetah) and adds
> the Linux
>         platform versions (cougar and bobcat.) By adding the product
> variant
>         to the file name a make rule using descr-$(PROD) can put this
> file
>         in the appropriate release directory. This file ends up on the
> NAS
>         Gateway as /onstor/etc/descr.
>         Reviewed by: TimG, AndyS
> 
> Affected files ...
> 
> ... //depot/dev/descr#3 delete
> ... //depot/dev/descr-bl#1 add
> ... //depot/dev/descr-cg#1 add
> ... //depot/dev/descr-ch#1 branch
