[Mailman-Developers] jitterbug and #12
Peter Gervai
grin@tolna.net
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:52:40 +0200
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