Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-26 Thread Vincent Danjean
peter green wrote: >> So, what do you suggest for this? Of course, this file _is_ a conffile >> (i.e. should never be automatically overwritten, so just moving it >> over to /var/lib is not just compiling with a different path set). If >> I don't automatically upgrade the file, users will end up wi

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-25 Thread peter green
So, what do you suggest for this? Of course, this file _is_ a conffile (i.e. should never be automatically overwritten, so just moving it over to /var/lib is not just compiling with a different path set). If I don't automatically upgrade the file, users will end up with a confused daemon unable an

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0200]: > Hi, > > for some packages the piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a > conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there > is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the r

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 19. August 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > The logs are linked from > > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/conffile_prompt_error.html > Not harmless at all. These are serious bugs. I'll file those accordingly :-)

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Affected packages are: > cdd-dev_0.6.3 > cherokee_0.99.20-1 > conntrackd_1:0.9.12-1 > junior-config_1.15 > med-config_1.2 > openswan_1:2.6.22+dfsg-1.1 > science-config_0.6 > The logs are linked from > http://piuparts.debian.org/sq

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > for some packages the piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a > conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there > is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the real > problem is that this prompt show

piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, for some packages the piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the real problem is that this prompt shows up in the first place, as there