Package: mhonarc Version: 2.6.16-1 Severity: important Tags: patch A bug in the dir_create function is making mhonarc quite unusable. The problem is well explained and a patch is given here : http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?25225
Without it, mhonarc just failed after having created a dest_dir, if we run mhonarc again, it will success, but fail on the next one, and again... I am using the "sympa" mailing list server, and there's a lot of use of mhonarc for mail archiving, so this problem is quite annoying. Exemple of command launched by sympa : /usr/bin/mhonarc -modifybodyaddresses -addressmodifycode '' -rcfile \ /usr/share/sympa/mhonarc-ressources.tt2 -outdir \ /var/lib/sympa/wwsarchive/[email protected]/2009-02 -definevars \ "listname=emplois-stages hostname=univ-pau.fr yyyy=2009 mois=02 \ yyyymm=2009-02 wdir=/var/lib/sympa/wwsarchive \ base=https://listes.univ-pau.fr/wws/arc tag=8ee702afe9" -umask 027 \ /var/lib/sympa/wwsarchive/[email protected]/2009-02/arctxt The patch given in the previous link totally fix the problem. --- mhfile.pl.orig 2009-01-01 12:29:30.000000000 -0800 +++ mhfile.pl.patched 2009-01-01 12:29:36.000000000 -0800 @@ -270,7 +270,9 @@ die qq/ERROR: "$path" exists, but it did not before, /, qq/and it is not a directory!\n/; } - } + } else { + last; + } } if ($i >= TEMP_MAX_TRIES) { die qq/ERROR: Unable to rename "$tmpdir" to "$path": $errstr\n/; This patch is from "Ben Webb" (fix /usr/share/mhonarc/mhfile.pl). Please fix the Lenny mhonarc package. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mhonarc depends on: ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages mhonarc recommends: ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction mhonarc suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
