[arch-dev-public] WARNING: changes to screen in testing

keenerd keenerd at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 14:36:30 EDT 2012


On 10/22/12, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> However, when upgrading the screen package, your existing screens will
> become unaccessible. How should we handle this?

Something similar happened on a debian system I administer.  Their
solution was to have a special temporary binary for connecting to the
old session.

Maybe a preinstall hook that copies the old screen binary to /tmp?

-Kyle
http://kmkeen.com


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