2.1 beta 3 to 2.1 beta 4 upgrade issue

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Mon Feb 5 16:18:43 CET 2007


* Johannes Graumann <johannes_graumann at web.de> [20070129 17:12]:
> obmtool will usually automatically determine which packages need to be
> built.  If you have made changes to the configuration files in
> /kolab/etc/kolab/templates/ and/or the release includes a change in the
> format of configuration files, the installation procedure will put the
> default/new files in place, but will backup the old ones as *.rpmsave. If
> not attended to, kolab will complain about these at start-up and refuse to
> start the service(s) involved. After making sure that all modifications you
> made to the original have been transferred to the new file (e.g. by
> using 'diff'), you can safely remove the files tagged *.rpmsafe. Kolab
> should now start up just fine.
> 
> That would have given me the needed information ...

I just added a shorter text inspired by yours to the README.

Thanks,
Thomas

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