[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> You can follow the recipe for moving conffiles in
> http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling >, and check if
> the current file have one of the known MD5 sums (the ones from
> untouched earlier installs), and move it away in the preinst and
> back in the upgrade fail, or
[Bdale Garbee]
> This is a one-time-transition issue. If there's some clever thing
> that could be done, for example in the preinst, to help the
> packaging system not need to prompt on upgrades that cross this
> transition, I'd be happy to do it.
You can follow the recipe for moving conffiles in
(-cc: debian-dpkg)
Bdale Garbee wrote:
>But, given my understanding of how things work and my
> experiences "trying to be clever" handling the sudoers file in previous
> releases of sudo, I currently believe the best option is to just leave
> this alone and let users be potentially co
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 03:25:23 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Bdale, if nothing happens in that front soon, the simplest workaround
> might be to teach sudo to use ucf. Not a dependency I like, but so it
> goes. Would you be interested in a patch doing that?
No.
This is a one-time-transition i
Sven Joachim wrote:
> How about merging sudo-ldap into sudo?
Some other possibilities to think about:
- let sudo-ldap dlopen libldap and print a suitable message on
failure (too slow?)
- let sudo-ldap depend on and be coinstallable with ordinary sudo
(using a diversion)
- move respons
On 2011-02-09 13:06 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> (-cc: debian-dpkg)
Then please CC me. :-)
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2011-02-09 11:25 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>>> Yes, sudoers is co-owned between sudo and sudo-ldap and needs to be
>>> removed when both are purged.
>>>
>>> I think ucf
(-cc: debian-dpkg)
Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-02-09 11:25 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Yes, sudoers is co-owned between sudo and sudo-ldap and needs to be
>> removed when both are purged.
>>
>> I think ucf can handle that.
[...]
> You still need to remove the file yourself on purge, ucf do
On 2011-02-09 11:25 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Before anyone delves into this, have a look at bug #605130 which is
>> exactly the problem that was solved by making /etc/sudoers a conffile.
>
> Yes, sudoers is co-owned between sudo and sudo-ldap and needs to be
> remov
Sven Joachim wrote:
> Before anyone delves into this, have a look at bug #605130 which is
> exactly the problem that was solved by making /etc/sudoers a conffile.
Yes, sudoers is co-owned between sudo and sudo-ldap and needs to be
removed when both are purged.
I think ucf can handle that. When
On 2011-02-09 10:25 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
>> The point is precisely to deal with the case when the user has not made
>> any change. And for this you would have to move /etc/sudoers aside in
>> "preinst upgrade" if it matches the md5sum of an unmodified file.
>
>
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> The point is precisely to deal with the case when the user has not made
> any change. And for this you would have to move /etc/sudoers aside in
> "preinst upgrade" if it matches the md5sum of an unmodified file.
Thanks, Raphaël. The main problem with this solution is tha
Hi,
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Bdale Garbee wrote:
> > The version of sudo in sid/experimental has switched to treating the
> > sudoers file as a standard Debian "conffile" instead of the former
> > ad-hoc approach to managing the file.
That's already the case for the version i
Bdale Garbee wrote:
> The version of sudo in sid/experimental has switched to treating the
> sudoers file as a standard Debian "conffile" instead of the former
> ad-hoc approach to managing the file.
>
> Given that there's no way for the sudo package to know what changes you
> might have made to t
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:09:59 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Package: sudo
> Version: 1.7.4p4-6
> Justification: policy §10.7.3
>
> Basic squeeze system, installed a few weeks ago. At installation
> time, I gave no root password, so sudo was set up automatically.
> Now I am upgrading to sid/exper
Package: sudo
Version: 1.7.4p4-6
Justification: policy §10.7.3
Basic squeeze system, installed a few weeks ago. At installation
time, I gave no root password, so sudo was set up automatically.
Now I am upgrading to sid/experimental.
| Preparing to replace sudo 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.1 (using
.../sud
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