[pkg-bacula-devel] current bacula package status

[Alexander Golovko]

В Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:24:28 +0200
Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> пишет:

> Hi Alexander!
> 
> On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:12:17 +0200, Alexander Golovko wrote:
> > I test bacula packages from commit 024a68b.
> >  - installation with piuparts 
> >  - upgrade from sid with piuparts
> >  - upgrade from squeeze with piuparts (except bacula-director-mysql
> > and bacula-director-pgsql due to problems with database start on
> >    distupgrade stage).
> >  - bacula-director-* upgrade from sid and squeeze manual
> >
> > I didn't test -dbg packages due to it take too much time.
> 
> THANK YOU.
> 
> > There is a next troubles:
> >
> >  - bacula-director-sqlite3 installation change permissions
> >    to /var/lib/bacula
> 
> I do not get this, does it means that installing another
> bacula-director-<dbtype> package does not preserve permissions?  This
> is weird, given my comment below about purging old packages.

It look like permissions changed by dbconfig-common stuff.
Installing bacula-director-sqlite3 without dbconfigcommon help don't
change permissions on /var/lib/bacula. But if i choose to create
database with dbconfig-common, then /var/lib/bacula permissions changed
from 0700 to 0750.


> 
> >  - Installation bacula-director with other dbtype and then purging
> > old package lead to removing bacula-dir.conf
> 
> Installing another -<dbtype> package should completely purge the old
> -<dbtype> package, so no bacula-dir.conf file should be available when
> the new package is uncompressed.  Can you elaborate a bit more, please
> (yes, I am a bit lazy...)?

1. apt-get install bacula-director-mysql (for example. it can be any
other)
2. apt-get install bacula-director-pgsql (for example)
3. dpkg -P bacula-director-mysql

In this case bacula-director-mysql postrm script remove bacula-dir.conf


> 
> IIRC bacula-dir.conf is not dbtype-independent, is it?  The easiest
> solution I can think of is to split the -<dbtype>-specific part into
> its own file and move the general bacula-dir.conf file to
> -director-common.

but this file include info, generated by dbconfig-common. It can't be
created before bacula-director-dbtype installation.

> 
> > And there is a some TODO for future:
> >
> >  - fix bugs from debian bugtracker and from ubuntu launchpad.
> 
> In the past I tried to get Ubuntu's maintainers into the team, but no
> one has replied yet: do you have any direct contact with them?

I don't have contacts with them, but they react to my mail with
differences between our packages and upload 5.2.6, based on our work.


> 
> >  - disable lintian warnings about hardening, due to upstream highly
> >    recommend do not use it (but i can't find link now).
> >  - try to fix unnecessary library linking and add capabilities(7)
> >    support.
> >  - multiarch support (but is it really have any sence? - there
> >    are no libraries, usable by other packages)
> 
> I am of the same opinion as yours :-)
> 
> >  - upgrade to 5.2.10 (i already make this, but due to wheezy
> > frozen, i think, that this is not a subject for upload to sid)
> >  - switch to ucf (the same, as with 5.2.10)
> 
> Both point dealt in my other reply:
> 
>   <mid:871ujec2jq.fsf at gismo.pca.it>
>   <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bacula-devel/2012-August/000519.html>

i think, this changes can be uploaded into experimental, but some later.

> 
> >  - add nagios check package
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> >  - upload webacula to unstable
> 
> Feel free to ask for sponsorship as soon as you are ready, may I
> suggest to add the DM-upload stuff to that as well?  ;-)

Thanks. i retest it with curent bacula version some later.

> 
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca


-- 
with best regards,
Alexander Golovko
email: alexandro at ankalagon.ru
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