[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#825064: Bacula director does not start silently due to database mismatch

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Hi Carsten,

Am Mo den 23. Mai 2016 um 18:50 schrieb Carsten Leonhardt:
> > But as I told, that is nothing for a casual user nor should that be
> > needed without notice.
> 
> Yes. That's why I'd like to understand why it didn't work automatically
> on your system, while it works on my test system.
> 
> I looked again at your first email, and noticed:
> 
> * bacula-director-sqlite3/dbconfig-install: false
> 
> I've tested an update from 7.0.5, with dbc_install='false' in
> /etc/dbconfig-common/bacula-director-sqlite3.conf. This time the update
> wasn't applied, apparently dbconfig-common doesn't apply any changes
> when this is set.
> 
> Please change it back to 'true' and run "dpkg-reconfigure
> bacula-director-sqlite3" if you want automatic updates in the future.

As the description states, with that dbc_install set to true would
overwrite the database completely with the next upgrade.

That would be even more fatal as all other solutions as that would mean
to forgot all about previous backups and locations.

> I'm closing this bug report, if you have further questions you can send
> them to pkg-bacula-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org

I don't think, that it should be closed. dbc_install is about installing
a new, empty database with every upgrade and dbc_upgrade is about
upgrading a existing one.

Nobody would, I believe, vote for dbc_install at all except for the
initial installation of the package. Otherwise it is the most dangerous
operation ever.

Regards
   Klaus
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