Package: apache-ssl Version: 1.3.33-3 Severity: important When I just upgraded apache-ssl, the postinst script did these modifications without asking me:
canardo:/etc/apache-ssl# cvs diff -u httpd.conf Index: httpd.conf =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/canardo_etc/apache-ssl/httpd.conf,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 httpd.conf --- httpd.conf 5 Jan 2005 14:29:46 -0000 1.16 +++ httpd.conf 25 Jan 2005 08:21:01 -0000 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ ### Section 2: 'Main' server configuration BindAddress www.mork.no -Port 80 +Port 443 Listen www.mork.no:443 Listen www.mork.no:80 User www-data @@ -417,3 +417,9 @@ Include /etc/cacti/apache.conf </VirtualHost> + +# Automatically added by the post-installation script +# as part of the transition to a config directory layout +# similar to apache2, and that will help users to migrate +# from apache to apache2 or revert back easily +Include /etc/apache-ssl/conf.d This is quite serious, since changing the bind port changes the configuration in a way which cannot be done safely. How would you know what the admins intentions are? Luckily, I also had a virtual server running on port 443, so I noticed an uexpected error caused by the above change. Bjørn -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages apache-ssl depends on: ii apache-common 1.3.33-3 support files for all Apache webse ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.26 Package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-17 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libexpat1 1.95.8-1 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libmagic1 4.12-1 File type determination library us ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-2 SSL shared libraries ii logrotate 3.7-2 Log rotation utility ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii openssl 0.9.7e-2 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a ii perl 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii ssl-cert 1.0-11 Simple debconf wrapper for openssl -- debconf information: apache-ssl/server-name: www.mork.no apache-ssl/server-admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * apache-ssl/enable-suexec: true apache-ssl/init: true apache-ssl/document-root: /home/www/mork.no