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Anjan's Blog · Feb 4, 2022

Sxmo Project Goals and the sxmo_migrate.sh on Upgrades Flaw

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In every release of Sxmo, we have a message in the release notes stating the following: 
 
 This release brings a lot of changes to sxmo configuration files and
hooks. Leaving your old configs can cause many issues so we recommend
you run sxmo_migrate.sh as soon as you upgrade. 
 
 
Users often do not read the release notes and join the irc channel to ask why their…

In every release of Sxmo, we have a message in the release notes stating the following:

This release brings a lot of changes to sxmo configuration files and hooks. Leaving your old configs can cause many issues so we recommend you run sxmo_migrate.sh as soon as you upgrade.

Users often do not read the release notes and join the irc channel to ask why their installs broke. Exploring this issue should explain Sxmo project goals to new users while providing context for Sxmo requiring this annoying manual intervention from the user. Moreover, in the upcoming postmarketOS stable release, we have a major improvement to this issue.

Read on /posts/2022-02-04-sxmo-migrate/

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