[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#675046: icinga-core: retention.dat / sync.dat move seems to be not handled

[Michael Friedrich]

On 29.05.2012 16:35, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Package: icinga-core
> Version: 1.7.0-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Hi.
>
> As far as I can see, in 1.7 you've moved the locations from retention.dat / sync.dat
> from /var/lib/icinga/ to /var/cache/icinga/ .
> While this is good by itslef :) ... could you please also handle this, i.e.:
> - move the files over (if they exist)
i would raise severity as such a change without copying the old retained 
data will cause possible regression. you will lose state history, 
retained states as well as the scheduling queue and other valuable 
information you would expect to behave normally after an upgrade.

see my changes on the icinga.spec for the rpms on repoforge, where i've 
added such an upgrade path in order to stay safe.
https://github.com/dnsmichi/rpms/commit/3ae5ce96b207c5adbc1e71f8cbd39ea81e2f4218#L0R191

(also within the tarball spec file)

>
> OR
> - delete them in the old locations

don't do that. this will break your history (except log archives).


i wasn't aware that the location changed in debian as well, otherwise i 
would have alerted sooner. possibly a fix for backports is needed then 
as well.

kind regards,
michael

>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>    APT prefers unstable
>    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.18-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
>
>


-- 
DI (FH) Michael Friedrich

Vienna University Computer Center
Universitaetsstrasse 7 A-1010 Vienna, Austria

email:     michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at
phone:     +43 1 4277 14359
mobile:    +43 664 60277 14359
fax:	   +43 1 4277 14338
web:       http://www.univie.ac.at/zid
            http://www.aco.net

Lead Icinga Core Developer
http://www.icinga.org