Akonadi backwards compatibility

[Rex Dieter]

Clive Messer wrote:
> On Sunday 22 Feb 2009 18:09:31 Clive Messer wrote:
>> On Sunday 22 Feb 2009 17:16:57 Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> I wish I had made notes but I didn't. I think the problem - akonadi's mysql
>> instance refusing to start, was because of the discrepancy between the
>> logfile size, set to 8M in '~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf' after the
>> upgrade, and the actual existing files on disk being larger. But take that
>> with a pinch of salt - I was half awake at the time.
> 
>>> the change as introduced should only affect *new* akonadi db's, old ones
>>> should be unaffected.
> 
> Rex,
> 
> It does affect existing setups.
> 
> The next time akonadi is re-started after the upgrade, 
> '~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf' is modified....

eww, that's lame.  I'll reask upstream about that undesirable behavior.

-- Rex