Bug#608793: Upgrade deletes symlinks /usr/share/zoneminder/events and ../images, replacing with hard dirs.

2011-01-15 Thread Peter Howard
On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 14:28 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:49:49AM +1100, Peter Howard wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:44 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: zoneminder could detect non-default/unknown symlink locations in the preinst script, and fail to upgrade

Bug#608793: Upgrade deletes symlinks /usr/share/zoneminder/events and ../images, replacing with hard dirs.

2011-01-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:02:02PM +1100, Peter Howard wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 14:28 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:49:49AM +1100, Peter Howard wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:44 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: here's a preinst which i think should

Bug#608793: Upgrade deletes symlinks /usr/share/zoneminder/events and ../images, replacing with hard dirs.

2011-01-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:49:49AM +1100, Peter Howard wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:44 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: zoneminder could detect non-default/unknown symlink locations in the preinst script, and fail to upgrade in those cases; not pretty, but maybe better than loosing the

Bug#608793: Upgrade deletes symlinks /usr/share/zoneminder/events and ../images, replacing with hard dirs.

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Howard
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:44 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:55:50AM +, Simon Avery wrote: Thanks for the reply! of course! And sorry for my slow reply . . . my mailserver has been broken for some days, only got the flood of correspondence this morning.

Bug#608793: Upgrade deletes symlinks /usr/share/zoneminder/events and ../images, replacing with hard dirs.

2011-01-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:55:50AM +, Simon Avery wrote: Thanks for the reply! of course! Like many zoneminder users wanting to use a dedicated mount for cctv storage, I replace /usr/share/zoneminder/events and images with symlinks to the right place (ie, a bigger drive

Bug#608793: Upgrade deletes symlinks /usr/share/zoneminder/events and ../images, replacing with hard dirs.

2011-01-04 Thread Simon Avery
Thank you for the advice on alternatively mounting it. I've updated the wiki and will change my four zoneminder servers over so I don't get bitten again! On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Vagrant Cascadian vagr...@freegeek.orgwrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:55:50AM +, Simon Avery wrote:

Bug#608793: Upgrade deletes symlinks /usr/share/zoneminder/events and ../images, replacing with hard dirs.

2011-01-03 Thread Simon Avery
Package: zoneminder Version: 1.24.2-7 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Like many zoneminder users wanting to use a dedicated mount for cctv storage, I replace /usr/share/zoneminder/events and images with symlinks to the right place (ie, a bigger drive not in /usr)

Bug#608793: Upgrade deletes symlinks /usr/share/zoneminder/events and ../images, replacing with hard dirs.

2011-01-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:15:17PM +, Simon Avery wrote: Like many zoneminder users wanting to use a dedicated mount for cctv storage, I replace /usr/share/zoneminder/events and images with symlinks to the right place (ie, a bigger drive not in /usr) /usr/share/zoneminder/events is a