From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: gnus-xmas-format in ~/.newsrc.eld
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:10:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluznmhotyr.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9wuhlgkc0.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:06:07 +0200")
Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 23 2003, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>>
>>> When a user wants to switch back to Gnus 5.8.8 (e.g. to see if some
>>> bug has been introduced in Oort), displaying articles fails, because
>>> `gnus-xmas-format' isn't bound.
>>
>> Downgrading does not work well, so maybe instead of adding workarounds
>> for some of the problems,
>
> Yes, it's a workaround. But why should we make downgrading harder
> than is necessary?
Since right it now perhaps it is too easy, fooling people into
believing everything will work. But I'm probably being over
protective. People should take backups, too.
>> One thing that will break after downgrade + upgrade are flags. Any
>> flag changes made using the old gnus version will be lost.
>
> Are you talking about the marks files (nnml, nnfolder, ...?)?
Yup.
> It worked for me in nndoc and nntp groups. I didn't try other back
> ends.
Those doesn't use marks.
>> Given the changes to agent/cache/etc, I think there are more
>> problems.
>
> Is there an entry in GNUS-NEWS for this? (I couldn't find any.)
I don't think there is. Could you suggest something? Maybe something
like the following.
** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used Oort.
If you have tried Oort (the unstable Gnus branch leading to this
release) but went back to a stable version, be careful when upgrading
to this version. In particular, you will probably want to remove all
.marks (nnml) and .mrk (nnfolder) files, so that flags are read from
your .newsrc.eld instead of from the .marks/.mrk file where this
release store flags. See a later entry for more information about
marks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-23 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 13:17 Reiner Steib
2003-04-23 14:18 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-04-23 18:06 ` Reiner Steib
2003-04-23 20:10 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-04-23 21:05 ` Reiner Steib
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