[DRE-maint] Bug#929183: diaspora-common symlink for config/oidc_key.pem will conflict with upcoming symlink for config to /etc/diaspora

Pirate Praveen praveen at onenetbeyond.org
Sat May 18 20:30:45 BST 2019


package: diaspora-common
severity: important
version: 0.7.6.1+debian1

We have a situation coming up with diaspora package, where we want 
/usr/share/diaspora/config directory of diaspora as symbolic link to 
/etc/diaspora to have all configuration files in /etc as per FHS 
(similar to gitlab).

But diaspora-common already creates 
/usr/share/diaspora/config/oidc_key.pem as a symbolic link to 
/var/lib/diaspora/oidc_key.pem (since diaspora needs to create this 
file) so diaspora package cannot convert /usr/share/diaspora/config to 
a symbolic link.


So symbolic link for /usr/share/diaspora/config should be moved to 
diaspora-common for this to work correctly. But diaspora-installer will 
also need to be changed accordingly to expect a symbolic link for 
config directory.



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