Bug#877533: biboumi needs /var/lib/biboumi directory to work properly.

[Vasudev Kamath]

Hi Louiz,

Florent Le Coz <louiz at louiz.org> writes:

> On 10/02/2017 06:01 PM, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>> Package: biboumi
>> Version: 6.0-1
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>>  From the newer version of biboumi, it needs /var/lib/biboumi directory
>> to be existing to start the service. This probably changed during version
>> 5.0 or 6.0 (not sure which exactly as I found issue in 6.0).
>>
>> Please create /var/lib/biboumi during package installation which should be
>> owned by nobody and nogroup.
>>
> For your information, this is new in version 6.0, because the support 
> for the database has been enabled in debian only in that version because 
> the dependencies have been lightened (it previously required litesql, 
> which is not packaged anywhere, now it only depends on sqlite3, which is 
> a very light dependency that can already be found in debian).

Ah. Though I'm also co-maintainer I did not get involved in latest
updates, so no wonder I did not notice changes. I came across the bug
when I backported it to my server.

>
>
> However, by default (if the option db_name is not set in the biboumi.cfg 
> file), biboumi will try to open (or create) the database file  
> $XDR_DATA_HOME/biboumi.sqlite or $HOME/.config/biboumi/biboumi.sqlite if 
> XDR_DATA_HOME is not defined.

Umm.. Slightly confused, if it is to use those environment variable the
unit should be installed with --user?. Also in the error file I noticed
biboumi complaining about non existent /var/lib/biboumi/biboumi.sqlite.

So am I understanding something wrong?.

>
> You also have to make sure the path is correct, somehow.

I would appreciate some more input as I was planning to add postinst
file which adds /var/lib/biboumi folder and also create user and group
biboumi biboumi.

Cheers,