Re: [HTCondor-users] HTCondor 8.2.4 Released

[Steffen Grunewald <Steffen.Grunewald@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 08:47:07AM -0600, Tim Theisen wrote:
> On debian there is no such surprise. The condor_config.local will
> remain in place (modified or not) when HTCondor is updated.
> New installations of HTCondor on debian systems will not have
> a condor_config.local file.

Thanks a lot for the clarification!

- S

> 
> ...Tim
> 
> On 11/19/2014 01:11 AM, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:47:02AM -0600, Tom Downes wrote:
> >>Hi Brian (and Condor Team):
> >>
> >>The release notes say
> >>
> >>The RPM and Debian distributions no longer include a configuration
> >>file called condor_config.local, as this file is reserved for the use
> >>of local administration.
> >This in my interpretation implies that installing a new version of the
> >package should never remove it *unless it's identical to the one that
> >has been installed by a previous version*.
> >
> >I'm not sure how the Debian package would behave - but I'll certainly
> >find out soon :/
> >
> >- S
> >
> 
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