[Openstack-devel] Bug#677400: This is not a bug, it is a feature!

[Ola Lundqvist]

Please go ahead!

// Ola

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:43:34PM +0200, ghe. rivero wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>    i finally managed to find the problem (not uploaded a fix, but it's
> pretty trivial).  As Zigo noted, scripts shouldn't change conffiles,
> but in our case, as we are using dbconfig, if we use other options
> than the defaults ones, it's ok to do it. In our case, using the
> default options (or non-interactive as piuparts does) the problem is
> that in nova-common.postinst script (line ~81)
>      SQL_CONNECTION="sqlite:////$dbc_basepath/$dbc_dbname"
>  we add an extra / (slash) after sqlite,  making the conf file
> different than the package default provided. The solution is as eassy
> as remove one the /. I'll wait for comments to provide a fix for it.
> 
> Ghe Rivero
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
> > On 06/18/2012 11:01 PM, Loic Dachary wrote:
> >> On 06/18/2012 04:20 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> >>> On 06/18/2012 06:08 PM, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> >>>> I refuse to re-open this bug unless you have a very good reason for it.
> >>>> It is a feature of the package, not a bug.
> >>> Please sit down comfortably, and re-read the policy manual.
> >> We're all working toward the same goal and it's very easy and non-controversial to explain why you think something is a mistake. Just use technical terms and references proving your case and avoid sarcasm, condescending tone etc.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance for tuning it down a little ;-)
> >
> > Sorry if this looked like I was having a bad tone.
> >
> > In technical terms: a maintainer script should never edit a file marked
> > as conffile. If you want to do it, then the configuration file shouldn't
> > be marked as conffile.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
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