Re: [gentoo-dev] Protecting config files of webapps
On 04/04/14 15:34, Matthew Summers wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> www-apps/tt-rss is configured through a file config.php sitting
>> in its install directory. At the moment the file is overwritten
>> when upgrading with webapp-config. Who is responsible for
>> config-protecting this file?
>>
>> a) the ebuild should install an env file (www-apps/otrs does this)
>> b) the user can be informed with einfo but needs to do it herself
>> c) This is a bug in webapp-config
>>
>> c) seems strange to me, but a user has reported this in bug
>> 496788 and it was closed as a duplicate implying c).
>>
>
> It depends. webapp-config is designed to keep a pristine copy in
> /usr/share/webapps/$PN/$PV/ so when you write "its install directory"
> I'm not sure which one you mean. Is it that one in /usr/share OR is it
> the directory, likely withinin /var/www/, that the cli invocation of
> webapp-config placed it's files?
I did not know about the pristine copy in /usr/share, that's
quite useful indeed. My analysis of the situation at the moment:
The ebuild tries to use the config protect functionality of
webapp-config as per eclass manpage. It has:
webapp_configfile ${MY_HTDOCSDIR}/config.php
This failed somehow. When upgrading my site install,
/var/www/../config.php was overwritten by the pristine version.
I don't know if this bug is different from
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493520
At least the patch in that bug seems to only work around the
problem, introducing a user configurable config protect variable.
> If the latter, then it's a bug. webapp-config is supposed to
> keep track of modified files across multiple installations of
> the same webapp, even differing versions of the same webapp. If
> it's not doing that, its a bug in webapp-config.
Yes.
Cheers,
Thomas
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Thomas Kahle
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Protecting config files of webapps
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi, > > www-apps/tt-rss is configured through a file config.php sitting > in its install directory. At the moment the file is overwritten > when upgrading with webapp-config. Who is responsible for > config-protecting this file? > > a) the ebuild should install an env file (www-apps/otrs does this) > b) the user can be informed with einfo but needs to do it herself > c) This is a bug in webapp-config > > c) seems strange to me, but a user has reported this in bug > 496788 and it was closed as a duplicate implying c). > > Cheers, > Thomas > > > -- > Thomas Kahle > http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ > It depends. webapp-config is designed to keep a pristine copy in /usr/share/webapps/$PN/$PV/ so when you write "its install directory" I'm not sure which one you mean. Is it that one in /usr/share OR is it the directory, likely withinin /var/www/, that the cli invocation of webapp-config placed it's files? If the latter, then it's a bug. webapp-config is supposed to keep track of modified files across multiple installations of the same webapp, even differing versions of the same webapp. If it's not doing that, its a bug in webapp-config. I'm adding blueness@g.o to CC since he is working on this package some. Thanks, Matt Matthew Summers Gentoo Foundation Inc. GPG: 111B C438 35FA EDB5 B5D3 736F 45EE 5DC0 0878 9D46
[gentoo-dev] Protecting config files of webapps
Hi, www-apps/tt-rss is configured through a file config.php sitting in its install directory. At the moment the file is overwritten when upgrading with webapp-config. Who is responsible for config-protecting this file? a) the ebuild should install an env file (www-apps/otrs does this) b) the user can be informed with einfo but needs to do it herself c) This is a bug in webapp-config c) seems strange to me, but a user has reported this in bug 496788 and it was closed as a duplicate implying c). Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
