[Webapps-common-discuss] Several issues

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, sean finney said:
> hey stephen,
> 
> On Saturday 08 September 2007 03:08:00 am Stephen Gran wrote:
> > After purposeful file deletion, we are left with an odd failure mode -
> > ucf remembers that the file was deleted and refuses to recreate it when
> > you add a new webapp to the virthost that you manually deleted.  This
> > is probably not the correct behavior, but I'm not sure what the right
> > logic to fix it is.  Maybe we need a webapps-common-delete-vhost wrapper
> > script of some sort like the a2ensite and a2dissite scripts?
> 
> yeah, deleting the file manually will result in problems like that for 
> anything that's ucf-managed.  maybe we could put a little blurb at the top of 
> the file with some info about that?  also, i think that eventually wrapper 
> scripts are the way to go, where various operations done by webapps-common 
> that also might be useful to a local admin are exported in a sensible way to 
> cmdline programs.

Yeah, I like that idea.

> > Another area is the strangely non-repeatable failure modes of some code
> > paths.  Sometimes, for no apparent reason, nothing will happen with
> > dpkg -i package-using-webapps-common
> > reconfiguring it creates all the apache and webapps-common files, but
> > dbconfig common asks about reconfiguring the database, rather than
> > configuring, fails to ask for the mysql root password, and does nothing
> > silently (this last is presumably a bug in dbconfig-common).
> 
> yeah,  i've definitely seen this.  also, i think there's a bug report against 
> dbconfig-common about the mysql root password during reconfiguration. 

At least it's not just me :)

> > All very odd.  I'm just trying to share my observations of the last day
> > or two of using it, so that we have some common place to track issues
> > (since it's not in the archive, we can't use the BTS yet).  Even with
> > these issues, I think this package is really pretty close to uploadable.
> > It's also probably arguably better to get more eyes on it with wider
> > testing, so that we get more coherent bug reports than my 'doh, it
> > doesn't work' type complaints :)
> 
> well perhaps we should send a package to experimental then?

That sounds great.
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