[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#681790: Bug#681790: Bug#681790: Bug#681790: /usr/sbin/bacula-dir: fails to upgrade database when database is on a remote machine

[Luca Capello]

Hi Enrico!

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:35:07 +0200, AZ Imballaggi S.r.l. - Enrico Ghera wrote:
> Il 18/07/2012 18:03, Luca Capello ha scritto:
>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:18:44 +0200, Alexander Golovko wrote:
>>> So, this is not a bug in package, but dbconfig-common habits.
>>> Ofcourse, we should describe database upgrade habits in README.Debian
>>> UPGRADE section.
>> If you want to do that, then please go ahead, but strictly speaking this
>> is not something that belongs to Debian, but in upstream manual.  Debian
>> provides a way to manage local and remote database, via dbconfig-common.
>> If the admin changes that, than she/he should *know* that automatic
>> upgrades could fail (Debian can not assure all possible configurations).
>>
>> Enrico, I am sorry for the bug, but I bet that having configured the
>> remote database via dbconfig-common (thus via `dpkg-reconfigure
>> bacula-director-mysql`) would have resulted in a correct upgrade.
> just to understand better (and avoid other useless bug reports):

FTR, no bug report is useless IMHO: this one actually let you know how
the Bacula database configuration is managed.

> everytime I modify my database settings I should run dpkg-reconfigure?
> doing the work twice? (one for actual conf and one for dbconfig)
> or I should run dpkg-reconfigure and it updates my conf as well?
> or my brain is dead and I have not understood anything?

The second option: since the database configuration is managed,
centrally, by dbconfig-common, you should not touch it by hand, but with
dpkg-reconfigure.  Doing this should update:

1) /etc/dbconfig-common/bacula-director-mysql.conf

2) all the relevant files in /etc/bacula/

Feel free to ask for more, if needed :-)

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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