Hi, in order to evaluate the possible impact and the packages affected by
Bug #689836: dpkg: md5sums incorrectly recorded for conffile takeover http://bugs.debian.org/689836 I'd like to generate lists of md5sums for the conffiles shipped in the distros. List of conffiles can be generated by grep ^etc Contents Since a conffile may be shipped by several (usually conflicting) packages, we should get the md5sums *per package* that ships the file. So what I'd like to have is lists of tuples (conffile, package, md5sum) for lenny, squeeze, wheezy (,and sid). The potential database corruption pairs would be (package1/distro1, package2/distro2) with distro2 == distro1+1 conffile1 == conffile2 package1 != package2 md5sum1 != md5sum2 Note that this dpkg database corruption can be fixed in distro1 by reinstalling package1 *before* dist-upgrading to distro2 (discovered while analyzing #699744), it will probably heal automatically, too, if the corruption happened during lenny->squeeze and wheezy ships the same conffiles as squeeze). To prevent new corruptions to happen during the upgrade process, dkpg needs to be upgraded to a fixed version (1.16.9) before the the conffile overtaking packages. Ignoring the md5sums, there are currently 298 package pairs that may take over conffiles during squeeze->wheezy upgrades (although this seems to include a lot of false positives like /etc/ftpusers that is shipped by many packages - right now there are 64 pairs that can take over this file) - too much to handle manually. But more interesting is probably what happened during lenny->squeeze and how to "fix" it (to avoid incorrect "modified conffile" prompts). Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/511b723a.5000...@debian.org
