[Fedora-music-list] Ardour 2.2 upgrade issue

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 23:32 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> > I think it would be best to put the real ardour binary under 
> > /usr/libexec and put a bash script called ardour under /usr/bin, this 
> > script could then check for an ~/.ardour2/ardourver2.2 file, and if 
> > that not exits remove the 3 files mentioned above (if they exist, or 
> > use rm -f), then it would touch ~/.ardour2/ardourver2.2 (after an 
> > mkdir -p ~/.ardour2) and finally end with:
> > exec /usr/libexec/ardour "$@"

Wouldn't it be better to mv the three files to .back files or something
like that? Those files might have customizations that the user did and
erasing them outright does not seem like the best option to me. 

> Ok, I've kicked off a devel build of ardour 2.2 with the changes you 
> described.  It should show up in rawhide soon (assuming the build 
> completes).  Please have a look if you can.  If it looks good, then I'll 
> probably push it out to F8 as well.

And to f7 as well?
-- Fernando