Bug#690067: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports
On 03.03.2013 22:53, Michael Biebl wrote: Seeing the poor handling of symlinked conffiles, I'm wondering if we should also remove them for the other affected packages, which do that: acpid: /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/acpid.socket avahi-daemon: /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/avahi-daemon.service /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/avahi-daemon.socket avahi-dnsconfd: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/avahi-dnsconfd.service hal: /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.Hal.service live-config-systemd: /etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/live-config.service rsyslog: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rsyslog.service /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service After a closer look, all those packages do *not* mark the symlinks as conffiles, so are not affected by this problem. So I wouldn't suggest any changes at this stage of the release. As for syslog-ng-core, I think the simplest solution for wheezy is to add the symlinks back to the package /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/syslog-ng.service but does *not* mark them as conffiles. + the usual cleanup of the existing conffiles via preinst. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#690067: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports
found 690067 3.3.5-3 thanks I quickly talked to algernon on IRC and did let him know that the proposed fix to use real conffiles for the systemd symlinks is not good. symlinks in .wants directories should never be real files. That will only cause problems in the future. Specifically the syslog.service symlink, which points to the default syslog provider, can't be a real file as this will break upgrades from syslog-ng to rsyslog or vice versa. I think we should get away with not installing any symlinks in syslog-ng, and let my auto-enabler [1] do the symlink bits. Since /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service is a shared ressource between rsyslog and syslog-ng, this one probably needs some special handling. Seeing the poor handling of symlinked conffiles, I'm wondering if we should also remove them for the other affected packages, which do that: acpid: /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/acpid.socket avahi-daemon: /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/avahi-daemon.service /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/avahi-daemon.socket avahi-dnsconfd: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/avahi-dnsconfd.service hal: /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.Hal.service live-config-systemd: /etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/live-config.service rsyslog: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rsyslog.service /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service syslog-ng-core: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/syslog-ng.service /etc/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service I think my auto-enabler should work well enough, until we have proper tools support in jessie. Michael, Tollef: any thoughts? [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-systemd/systemd.git;a=commit;h=d7e5781795296c24f0f311a7227bfb5e86dc51fa -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#690067: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports
On 03.03.2013 22:53, Michael Biebl wrote: syslog-ng-core: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/syslog-ng.service /etc/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service Oh, and btw, converting the /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service symlink to a real file named /etc/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service is broken too. The name *needs* to be syslog.service as this name is referenced in other places. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
