afick upgrade
Author: Gerbier

# upgrade

## before 2.9 release

### windows users

BE CAREFUL : before using afick.exe installer, save your config file (*.conf)

### UNIX/Linux users

if you are using packager (rpm, dpkg), your old config file will be kept
if you are using tar.gz, you have to save your config file before the `make install` command

## starting from release 2.9

All packages (rpm, deb, tar, windows exe) use the same pre and post-install scripts, to :

- save old configuration file
- improve upgrade, with the new local configuration part
- clean configuration syntax, with use of afickonfig with clean_config and addpath addlib options

### local configuration

new configuration files come with 2 parts, separated by the ########## put your local config below #################### line :

- the first part is delivered by afick package, and will be changed on each upgrade
- the second part it to be filled by users, and will be kept on upgrade

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