[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#900287: owncloud-client-cmd requires /etc/owncloud-client/sync-exclude.lst and ~/.local/share/data/ownCloud/

[Charles Curley]

Package: owncloud-client-cmd
Version: 2.2.4+dfsg-2

On a fresh bare metal installation of Debian 9.4 stretch, with no GUI,
I installed owncloud-client-cmd.

root at dzur:/etc# pre owncloud
libowncloudsync0	2.2.4+dfsg-2		amd64
owncloud-client-cmd	2.2.4+dfsg-2		amd64
owncloud-client-l10n	2.2.4+dfsg-2		all
root at dzur:/etc#


I then executed the following:

charles at dzur:~$ /usr/bin/owncloudcmd --user charles --password <obfucated> /home/charles/nextcloud https://nextcloud/nextcloud
QIODevice::read (QFile, "/home/charles/.local/share/data//ownCloud//cookies.db"): device not open
Set proxy configuration to use system configuration
Cannot load system exclude list or list supplied via --exclude
Aborted
charles at dzur:~$

I solved that by going to a backup from a prior installation
(/crc/dzur), and copying in the relevant files:

charles at dzur:~$ mkdir -p /home/charles/.local/share/data//ownCloud/
charles at dzur:~$ /usr/bin/owncloudcmd --user charles --password <obfuscated> /home/charles/nextcloud https://nextcloud/nextcloud
QIODevice::read (QFile, "/home/charles/.local/share/data//ownCloud//cookies.db"): device not open
Set proxy configuration to use system configuration
Cannot load system exclude list or list supplied via --exclude
Aborted
charles at dzur:~$ ls /crc/dzur/home/charles/.l
.lesshst  .local/   
charles at dzur:~$ ls /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/
applications/       keyrings/           shotwell/           xfce4/
data/               orage/              shotwell.old/       xorg/
gnome-sudoku/       recently-used.xbel  Trash/              
gvfs-metadata/      ristretto/          vlc/                
charles at dzur:~$ ls /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/
cookies1.db  cookies.db  folders  owncloud.cfg
charles at dzur:~$ ls /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/* ~/.local/share/data/ownCloud//crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/cookies1.db
/crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/cookies.db
/crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/owncloud.cfg

/crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/folders:
ownCloud

/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/:
charles at dzur:~$ cp -rp /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/* ~/.local/share/data/ownCloud/
charles at dzur:~$

Once more, with feeling:

charles at dzur:~$ /usr/bin/owncloudcmd --user charles --password <obfuscated> /home/charles/nextcloud https://nextcloud/nextcloud
Set proxy configuration to use NO proxy
Cannot load system exclude list or list supplied via --exclude
Aborted
charles at dzur:~$

Some googling produced https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/4955
That lead me to solve that problem by again copying in from a backup:

root at dzur:/etc# cp -rp /crc/dzur/etc/owncloud-client/ .
root at dzur:/etc# ll owncloud-client/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  6 12:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 105 root root 12288 May 28 08:34 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   362 Sep 27  2016 sync-exclude.lst
root at dzur:/etc#

The next test produced a sucessful run.

On a headerless system, a GUI is superfluous. A command line only
program should not depend on GUI versions of the program. So the
owncloud-client-cmd package should (if necessary) install a minimal
etc/owncloud-client/.

The lack of the user's ~/.local is probably something that should be
solved on the first run of the program, so I suggest that is an
upstream bug.

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