On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:05:12PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > I'm going to adopt cacti[1]. But I have a problems with a clean upgrade > path to the new upstream version. > > Cacti use a mysql database to store the configuration values (including > users/password, graphic options, layouts, ...). The new upstream version > (0.8.x) use a completly new designed database structure then the old > version, which is currently already packed for Debian. > > I have tried to write some postinst scripts to migrate the existing > database into the new one, but I think now this is impossible, because > maybe informations which are needed in the new version are missing in > the old one.
Missing information should not be a problem; you can either provide a default, or ask the user with debconf for the correct answer. -- - mdz
