[Fedora-music-list] Ardour 2.2 upgrade issue

Anthony Green green at redhat.com
Tue Jan 22 22:09:54 UTC 2008


Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 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, done (as well as the mkdir -p that Hans pointed out).  It's building 
in rawhide right now.
>> 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
>   

Ok.

AG




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