From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Superseded packages Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:19:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20160911151945.GB6400@jasmine> References: <20160904021256.GA21539@jasmine> <874m5vvmi8.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <20160904184416.GB29947@jasmine> <87d1kirc4r.fsf@gnu.org> <87vay8r9r3.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20160910172514.GA28562@jasmine> <87a8felfb9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bj6Y5-0000uw-RS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:20:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bj6Y1-0001aF-L4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:20:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a8felfb9.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:46:34PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I'm not sure about Attic / Borg. Superseding attic will break > > automation, although I did that when I made letsencrypt inherit from > > certbot. Also, the authors are different. Advice? > > I would make Borg supersede Attic. However, if Borg does not provide, > say, an ‘attic’ command, which would make it incompatible by default, we > may want to change the Borg package to include such a command. There are other incompatibilities, for example in the repository format. Borg provides a `borg upgrade` tool that performs a one-way conversion of Attic repos to Borg repos. Just creating an 'attic -> borg' alias would not be enough; any automated backup scripts would still fail.