[pkg-bacula-devel] current bacula package status

[Alexander Golovko]

В Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:04:45 +0200
Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> пишет:

> Hi Alexander!
> 
> Sorry for the long delay, DebConf13 is taking all my free time.
> 
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:46:04 +0200, Alexander Golovko wrote:
> > В Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:24:28 +0200
> > Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> пишет:
> >
> >> On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:12:17 +0200, Alexander Golovko wrote:
> >> > 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.
> 
> Ah OK, so this should be solved at the dbconfig-common level, but it
> is a minor point.
> 
> >> >  - 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
> 
> This is weird: I thought that the Conflicts:/Provides:/Replaces:
> solution would have solved this, but this is not true since -mysql are
> REMOVED and not PURGED. `apt-get --purge install
> bacula-director-pgsql` does the Right Thing™.  For my solution to fix
> such a bug (yes, it is a bug) read below.

oh, this is dpkg bug 163657.
and really it will not affect bacula packages after switching to ucf.


> 
> >> 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.
> 
> This is true, but it can be shipped almost empty by -director-common,
> then bacula-director-<dbtype> will fill it, thus removing the bug
> above.  Anyway, this can be a future change.
> 
> >> > 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.
> 
> We need to try to involve them in the team, I will send another
> "invitation" before the end of this month.
> 
> >> >  - 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.
> 
> Fully agree.
> 
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca


-- 
with best regards,
Alexander Golovko
email: alexandro at ankalagon.ru
xmpp: alexandro at ankalagon.ru
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bacula-devel/attachments/20120925/4861cde0/attachment-0001.pgp>