There may be a bit of confusion in this thread about "merging". My understanding and experience is that with .DEB upgrades there is no automatic merging of config file changes. You run either with your old config or the new one.
Every upgrade I do a manual check for changes and merge anything myself. One case is weewx.conf, which contains a version number, with the comment "*do not modify this*". So I modify it - such that my old config file matches the new version number. Cameron. On Saturday, 31 October 2020 at 11:49:44 am UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I use ubuntu on an Intel NUC, with systemd, weewx 4.1 was installed as > package. > I followed the upgrade guide, here was the result: > > The following packages will be upgraded: > weewx > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded. > Need to get 1.207 kB of archives. > After this operation, 47,1 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Get:1 http://weewx.com/apt/python3 buster/main all weewx all 4.2.0-1 > [1.207 kB] > Fetched 1.207 kB in 6s (195 kB/s) > Requesting to save current system state > Successfully saved as "autozsys_sgety6" > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 245196 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../archives/weewx_4.2.0-1_all.deb ... > Unpacking weewx (4.2.0-1) over (4.1.1-1) ... > Setting up weewx (4.2.0-1) ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/weewx/skins/Seasons/current.inc > ... > Installing new version of config file > /etc/weewx/skins/Seasons/rss.xml.tmpl ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/weewx/skins/Seasons/seasons.js > ... > Installing new version of config file > /etc/weewx/skins/Standard/index.html.tmpl ... > > Configuration file '/etc/weewx/weewx.conf' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version > N or O : keep your currently-installed version > D : show the differences between the versions > Z : start a shell to examine the situation > The default action is to keep your current version. > **** weewx.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? N* > Installing new version of config file /etc/weewx/weewx.conf.dist ... > saving previous config file as /etc/weewx/weewx.conf-4.1.1 > saving distribution config file as /etc/weewx/weewx.conf-4.2.0 > merging previous and distribution into /etc/weewx/weewx.conf > Using configuration file /etc/weewx/weewx.conf-4.1.1 > *update-rc.d: error: unable to read /etc/init.d/weewx* > *dpkg: error processing package weewx (--configure):* > * installed weewx package post-installation script subprocess returned > error exit status 1* > Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.2) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > weewx > ZSys is adding automatic system snapshot to GRUB menu > *E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)* > > No big issue regarding the missing /etc/init.d/weewx I guessed, the big > problem is that when weewx restarted I noticed totally wrong data. > > I quickly checked and compared the conf files, and I found out that > *station_type > = WeatherFlowUDP* was changed to *station_type = Simulator.* > I reverted it to the original value, but unfortunately I have 3-4 minutes > of bad data in the db now, and I also sent it to some weather networks. > > Could this be due to the merging process of the conf files? > Is there a way I can fix the database removing those bad records? > > Thanks for any help on this. > > Alessandro > > On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 1:14:04 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > >> Some new features, fixes some bugs. >> >> See the *Upgrade Guide <http://www.weewx.com/docs/upgrading.htm>* for >> instructions on how to upgrade. >> >> CHANGE LOG >> >> CHANGES COMING! This is the last release that will support the LaCrosse >> WS23xx, >> Oregon WMR200 and WMR300 stations. In the future, they will be published as >> unsupported extensions. >> >> Made it easier to add new, derived types via StdWXCalculate. Fixes issue >> #491. >> >> Changed the tag system slightly in order to make it possible for the XTypes >> system to add new aggregations that take an argument. >> >> Added the new data types in the extended_wview schema to the WeeWX types >> system. Fixes issue #613. >> >> Added ability to label left, right or both y-axes of graphs. PR#610. >> Fixes issue #609. Thanks to user Brent Fraser! >> >> Added units and labels for the lightning data types. >> >> Fixed problem where threads attempt to access non-existent database. Fixes >> issue #579. >> >> Fixed problem that caused reporting units to revert to US if they were in a >> mixed unit system. Fixes issue #576. >> >> Fixed problem that could cause the station registry to fail if given a >> location >> with a non-ASCII location name. >> >> Changed TE923 bucket size from 0.02589 inches to 1/36 of an inch >> (0.02777778 in). PR #575. Fixes issue #574. Thanks to user Timothy! >> >> Undocumented option retry_certificate has been renamed to retry_ssl, and now >> covers all SSL errors (not just certificate errors). Fixes issue #569. Thanks >> to user Eric! >> >> Fixed problem caused by specifying a [Logging]/[[formatters]] section in >> weewx.conf that uses interpolated variables. >> >> Fixed problem in the Vantage driver that resulted in incorrect sunrise/sunset >> being included in loop packets when run under Python 3. Thanks to users >> Constantine and Jacques! >> >> Improved auto-scaling of plot axes. >> >> Fixed problem where aggregates of windvec and windgustvec returned the >> aggregate >> since start of day, not the start of the aggregation period. Fixes issue >> #590. >> >> New unit "beaufort", included in "group_speed". Treating beaufort as a >> separate >> type has been deprecated. Fixes issue #591. >> >> New unit "kPa", included in "group_pressure". Fixes issue #596. >> >> Fixed bug in the simulator. Made it easier to subclass class Simulator. >> >> Expressions in StdCalibration are now ordered. Later corrections can depend >> on >> earlier corrections. >> >> Fixed problem under Python 2, where option 'none' could cause exception. >> PR #597. Thanks to user Clément! >> >> Fixed problem with ws23xx driver under Python 3 that caused it to crash. >> >> Use a more modern formula for heat index. Fixes issue #601. Thanks to >> user Peter Q! >> >> Allow overriding the data binding when using iterators. Fixes issue #580. >> >> Fixed problem where old daily summaries may not have a version number. >> >> Fixed problem in WMR200 driver where missing UV reports as index 255. >> >> Added option 'force_direction' for working around a WU bug. Fixes issue #614. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/a1655ac3-9aa8-4d68-baea-4b46ab9646c0n%40googlegroups.com.
