[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#1129524: cacti: Migration problem when upgrading from cacti very old cacti version 0.8.8c

[Michal Procházka]

Hi,

if you compare the debian package

https://sources.debian.org/src/cacti/1.2.30%2Bds1-1/install/upgrades/1_0_5.php

with the upstream file

https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/develop/install/upgrades/1_0_5.php

you can notice that there is a difference on line 35.

Lines 35 - 40 should just fix a bug that was in the original migration 
and was causing problems when upgrading from a very old version.

The bug was not fixed by the new migration, but by fixing the existing 
migration.

Michal.



On 3/2/26 10:30 PM, Paul Gevers wrote:
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> Hi Michal,
>
> Thanks for reporting issues you encounter.
>
> On 3/2/26 14:41, Michal Procházka wrote:
>> I was migrating a very old Cacti server to a new one. The upgrade
>> process stopped at version 1.0.4 and then failed with a database
>> migration error. The issue was caused by a bug in the migration file for
>> version 1.0.5. The related GitHub issue is:
>> https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/5527
>
>
> That change supposedly went into 1.2.26 and indeed I see it in the 
> Debian package currently in stable: 1.2.30+ds1-1: 
> https://sources.debian.org/src/cacti/1.2.30%2Bds1-1/install/upgrades/1_0_5.php
>
>> After replacing the distribution migration file with the upstream
>> version (1_0_5.php), the migration completed successfully and the Cacti
>> upgrade finished without problems.
>
>
> Can you show the difference between your downloaded file and the 
> original.
>
>> It looks like the migration file in the package needs to be synchronized
>> with the upstream version.
>
>
> I didn't change the file, so if it's different than needed, it's a 
> delta that's already present in the upstream tar ball.
>
> I don't understand how the situation you describe could have happened.
>
> Paul
>