[Mailman-Developers] jitterbug and #12

[Peter Gervai]

On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>     PG> Out of my curiousity I submitted a bug into the bug database.
>     PG> It got resolved really fast. I only have two problems.
> 
>     PG> First: Maybe it's just me but I don't really see WHO did close
>     PG> the bug.
> 
> It was me, 

It's hard to keep secret that I suspected that. :-))

>     PG> And about the #12: as the original text told the install
>     PG> overwrites the $BASE/templates directory without
>     PG> warning. Since I localized the templates to be able to create
>     PG> localized lists with newlist I wasn't REALLY happy to learn
>     PG> that all of them got overwritten.  Of course
>     PG> lists/<listname>/templates don't get overwritten, but that's
>     PG> another matter I did not complain about...
> 
> Ah, I completely misunderstood your bug report. 

No problem, that's why I tried to reply. 

> I've moved this back
> to incoming so I'll remember to deal with it.  I'm not 100% sure what
> the solution should be though.

Possibility#1: create a backup file/directory when overwriting

Possibility#2: keep MD5/CRC/whatever of the 'original' file thus be able to
detect whether it was modified or not

cya,
grin