[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#488822: Bug#488822: nagios-plugins: overwrites configuration on upgrade

[Jan Wagner]

tags 488822 + moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

On Tuesday 01 July 2008 15:58, Jan Wagner wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Tuesday 01 July 2008 15:17, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
> > During upgrade, nagios-plugins has replaced all config files in
> > /etc/nagios-plugins/config with that files provided in the dist package.
> > The upgrade sequence did not asked me to keep my local changes which I
> > made to these files.
> >
> > So maybe they are not treated as config files? Upgrade was done with
> > "aptitude safe-upgrade".
>
> it would be nice to know, which version of the packages you had installed
> before the upgrade and maybe, which files was overwritten

Okay ... I double checked it here. The files are handled correct when 
upgrating from 1.4.11-2 to 1.4.12-1. ucf opens a debconf dialog for asking 
how to handle the file(s).

root     22893  2.9 28.1  51264 36876 ttyp1    Sl+  16:37   0:00 aptitude 
safe-upgrade
root     22938  0.0  1.6   3444  2164 ttyp3    Ss+  16:37   
0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 34 --configure nagios-plugins-basic 
nagios-plugins-standard nagios-plugins
root     22939  0.0  0.7   2568  1044 ttyp3    S+   16:37   
0:00 /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-plugins-basic.postinst configure 
1.4.11-2
root     22940  0.0  0.4   2576   644 ttyp3    S+   16:37   
0:00 /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-plugins-basic.postinst configure 
1.4.11-2
root     23074  0.8  5.8   9464  7668 ttyp3    S+   16:37   
0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /usr/bin/ucf 
dummy.cfg /etc/nagios-plugins/config/dummy.cfg
root     23082  0.0  0.9   2704  1252 ttyp3    S+   16:37   
0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/ucf dummy.cfg /etc/nagios-plugins/config/dummy.cfg
root     23111  0.0  1.4   3744  1920 ttyp3    S+   16:37   0:00 
whiptail --backtitle Package configuration --title Modified configuration 
file --output-fd 11 --nocancel --default-item keep_current --menu A new 
version of configuration file /etc/nagios-plugins/config/dummy.cfg is 
available, but the version installed currently has been locally 
modified.??What would you like to do about dummy.cfg? 15 154 5 -- install_new  
keep_current  diff  sdiff  shell

I guess there is anything messed on your system.

With kind regards, Jan.
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