[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#465148: Bug#465148: overwrites /etc/default/slapd /etc/ldap/ldap.conf on upgrade from 2.3 -> 2.4

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:01:09PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:01:14PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > Just did the upgrade from slapd 2.3.38-1+lenny1 -> 2.4.7-5 and
> > > /etc/defaults/slapd and /etc/ldap/ldap.conf where overwritten. I had a
> > > backup of these but a warning might have been good

> > /etc/defaults/slapd is a conffile.  It's managed by dpkg in the standard
> > way.  If you had modified your defaults, you would be prompted on upgrade
> > whether to accept the new file; if you had not, then the new file comprises
> > the correct new settings as determined by the maintainers.

> > /etc/ldap/ldap.conf is likewise a conffile, though in this case it's a
> > conffile whose owner changed from libldap2 to libldap-2.4-2.  If I remember
> > correctly, this at worst causes spurious conffile prompts on upgrade,
> > though, not silent overwriting of conffiles.  What precisely is the problem
> > you encountered with this file after the upgrade?

> I used sudo-ldap, it configuration is kept in there 

Ok, what *changed* about the configuration on upgrade?  I have custom
ldap.conf files on several of my systems, and /etc/ldap/ldap.conf was not
overwritten on upgrade.  Do you have an /etc/ldap/ldap.conf.dpkg-old file
after upgrading?

> I manually edited the default/slapd, i setup
> SLAPD_SERVICES="ldap:/// ldapi:/// ldaps:///"

> which was lost on upgrade

What do you mean, "lost"?  How was dpkg (or apt) invoked on your system?
Did you get a conffile prompt for this file, and what answer did you give?

This is all managed by dpkg, whose handling of conffiles has been
established for a decade.  I don't see how there are any bugs in slapd here.

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