On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 11:09 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > Am 15.01.2011 10:18, schrieb Adam D. Barratt: > > On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 01:02 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > So what happens when a user upgrades from lenny to the new package? > > A debconf screen is displayed telling the user that no automatic upgrade > of the database is possible. The user is pointed to > /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-*sql/README.Debian with further > instructions to upgrade manually. [...] > Yes, Zabbix stops working. The users sees a lot of SQL errors on the web > interface. Until the user does the manual upgrade procedure Zabbix is > unusable. But no existing data is lost.
Hrm, that's rather unfortunate. I wonder if it's worth highlighting in the release notes that this will happen during the upgrade process. > > + * Removed recommends for a database server from zabbix-frontend-php > > + package to prevent automatic installation since recommenations are > > + automatically installed. [...] > I made this change because it will likely fix two bugs that have been > downgraded from "grave" to "important" - namely #606780 and #606795. > During installation and upgrade tests I found that even if I chose > zabbix-server-pgsql (Zabbix server using a PostgreSQL backend) the > zabbix-frontend-php started to install a mysql-server-5.x package. Ah, I see. This does also mean that installing the PHP front-end on its own will no longer pull in one of the server packages, although that's arguably an improvement. Please go ahead. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295087414.14391.3908.ca...@hathi.jungle.funky-badger.org
