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Folks,<br>
<br>
This only applies to those using the RPM/yum distribution of ZendTo.<br>
It affects people running CentOS or RedHat, for starters.<br>
<br>
It does not apply to people running ZendTo on Ubuntu or Debian, for
example.<br>
<br>
Currently, if you modify a *.tpl file (anything in
/opt/zendto/templates) and then upgrade:<br>
1. The new version goes in as *.tpl.rpmnew<br>
2. The rpm command tells you this (but it tells you a lot of things
very fast)<br>
3. You have to go and fix up any customisations, so that the service
works at all.<br>
<br>
What I could change them to is this:<br>
1. The new version goes in as *.tpl and the old modified one is
renamed to *.tpl.rpmsave<br>
2. The rpm command tells you as before<br>
3. The service works first time, but you then need to re-apply your
customisations.<br>
<br>
Which approach is better?<br>
<br>
It's going to be a very noticeable change for any site that
regularly tweaks any of the *.tpl files.<br>
But I suspect that is a small proportion of sites.<br>
<br>
What do you think?<br>
<br>
Is this change a good idea or a bad one?<br>
<br>
Please let me know!<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Jules
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'No more impressive warning can be given to those who would confine
knowledge and rsearch to what is apparently useful, than the
reflection that conic sections were studied for eighteen hundred
years merely as an abstract science, without regard to any utility
other than to satisfy the craving for knowledge on the part of
mathematicians, and that then at the end of this long period of
abstract study, they were found to be the necessary key with which
to attain the knowledge of the most important laws of nature.'
- Alfred North Whitehead
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