Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:03:46 +0300 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Policy for dealing with webapps' datafiles? Message-ID: <cb5206420511140503k6fd50244l82373b2d21023b86@mail.gmail.com>
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Many applications, particularly web applications, store data in xml, text or binary files. They come with an initial set of files, so that we can start using them right away - without the need to create anything (which might even be unsupported). So, you install a forum, a calendar or something else, use it, like it - but when you run portupgrade all your data is gone. It seems that the most harmless way to deal with it is to leave potentially valuable files untouched during deinstall, and echo a message about it. It's ugly and reminds me of debian apt, but we've got to deal with it one way or another. Does anyone have a bright idea about this? I searched some mailing lists, but never saw one big discussion on this.
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