AIUI, it isn't appropriate for a package to modify another package's
behaviour from under its feet in this way. Debian Policy Appendix G (not
formally policy I don't think) says: "Do not attempt to divert a
conffile, as dpkg does not handle it well.". Though
https://wiki.debian.org/ConfigPackages
Won't fix +1
Pre-Depends is really an easy work-around!!
I see problems with dpkg-divert, but I also see work-arounds and room
for discussions and improvements of individual packages. I don't think
we need to say that "dpkg-divert" should be discouraged because of
debian policy, nor do I see a
Regarding the discussion about dpkg-divert: It's inevitable -- I wanna
change something in nginx.conf that's not possible to change elsewhere
because /etc/nginx/conf.d is only loaded in the http { ... } segment:
2015/11/11 22:29:32 [emerg] 15102#0: "worker_processes" directive is not
allowed here
I'm going to take the following actions on this bug, and the Server Team
is OK'd to say otherwise, since I'm slightly sleep deprived.
> Agreed, no need to patch this in Ubuntu. Should be done in Debian,
which I can see would have the same problem. -- Benjamin Bach, November
11, 2015, Comment 7
Just read this:
> > Conceptually, a diverting package actually pre-depends on the package
> > being diverted.
Furthermore:
> Current behaviour of dpkg-divert is not an excuse to retain it, IMHO.
> Conceptually, dpkg-divert in preinst scripts is just wrong.
>From this discussion:
Benjamin,
Thanks for the post here. However, there's no debug information
available here, really, to poke at things. One huge difference from
14.04 and 15.04 is systemd, can you include some debug information (such
as the output of `systemctl -l status nginx.service` and `journalctl
-xe`) so we
@Thomas Ward
Firstly, a correction: 14.04 also has the issue, I was looking at the wrong
file (
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/nginx/trusty/view/head:/debian/nginx-core.postinst
is correct )
Let me try to summarize the issue a little better:
You have a package,
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I'm going to take a wild guess that the issue is because vivid's nginx-
common.postinst has this line:
invoke-rc.d nginx start || exit $?
Which will make postinst fail if nginx fails to start for the first
time.
15.04:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
