The geneweb package has an historically piece of code in its postinst script that deals for recursively fixing permissions and owners in the /var/lib/geneweb directory (the place where genealogical databases that are served by the main daemon are stored).
There might be work in the future to remove that code, but I recently got a bug report (#559411, initially reported for Ubuntu) that showed that this code is failing if database names contain spaces, thus having the upgrade fail. The bug is fixed in unstable but I would like to fix it in lenny through s-p-u with the attached patch to the postinst script. Stable release managers, objections? PS: the IFS change alone is enough to fix the bug....but the proper variable quoting certainly doesn't hurt. --
--- tags/5.01-8/debian/geneweb.postinst 2009-08-06 07:59:11.000000000 +0200
+++ trunk/debian/geneweb.postinst 2009-12-20 17:07:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -169,22 +167,28 @@
#
# Thanks to Russell Sutherland for pointing this to me
# Bug: 179918
+ #
+ # Deal properly with database names that contain spaces
+ OLDIFS=${IFS}
+ IFS='
+'
for base in `find $GENEWEBDB -type d -name \*.gwb`
do
- chgrp $USERS_GROUP $base
- chmod g+w,g+s $base
+ chgrp $USERS_GROUP "$base"
+ chmod g+w,g+s "$base"
# Fix files permissions. See #219779
for file in `find $base -type f`
do
- chgrp $USERS_GROUP $file
- chmod g+w $file
+ chgrp $USERS_GROUP "$file"
+ chmod g+w "$file"
done
done
for imagedir in `find $GENEWEBDB/images -type d`
do
- chgrp $USERS_GROUP $imagedir
- chmod g+w,g+s $imagedir
+ chgrp $USERS_GROUP "$imagedir"
+ chmod g+w,g+s "$imagedir"
done
+ IFS=${OLDIFS}
# Values are read from debconf
# to update variables
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