Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:11:19 +0200 From: Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= <lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de> To: Ben Bangert <ben@knowledgetap.com> Cc: lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: bacula-1.32f5 updating destroys prior bacula conf files Message-ID: <200405140511.i4E5BJ402784@rayadm.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: Message from Ben Bangert <ben@knowledgetap.com> "of Thu, 13 May 2004 17:27:33 PDT." <7DEC7598-A53D-11D8-AFB0-0003937C4014@knowledgetap.com>
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---------- Hi! In reply to Ben Bangert who wrote: =20 > Ummmmm >=20 > I ran portupgrade the other day on bacula. Christ was that a mistak= e. I=20 > had the absurd idea that as portupgrade has always done with every = port=20 > thus upgraded, it would save a copy of the conf files for the port.= =20 > Prolly to .old or something. >=20 > Hah! No, instead it completely obliterated my configuration files.= =20 > Who's bright idea was that? Lucky I had all my conf files backed up= ...=20 > to a bacula volume... so now I need to reconfigure bacula enough to= =20 > gain access to the volume to restore my config files. >=20 > The most braindead part of the whole thing, is that there was=20 > absolutely no reason to completely destroy the old bacula config fi= les,=20 > since the port didn't install any .conf files, only .sample files. >=20 > At least I haven't lost anything other than my faith in FreeBSD= =20 > ports.... There is a problem in the portssystem and portupdate to handle conf= =20 files with a different MD5 sum correctly. I miss to bypass this in the port of bacula up to 1.32f5. No a=20 workaround is implemented. The problem only occur with portupdrade, not make deinstall and=20 pkg_delete! The last one are my way to upgrade such an complex thing= =20 like bacula, which holds all by important data ..... But I think after this nice email of you it's time to give the=20 maintainership over to you to make it much better. Can you imagine ho= w=20 much work it is to stay with current versions of bacula and test the= =20 various possible configurations basically? Thanks for your motivating words ... Lars --=20 Lars K=F6ller \ Raum : V0-318 (Tel: 4964) Leitung Systeme \ E-Mail : Lars.Koeller@Uni-Bielefeld.DE und Serverdienste \ PGP-Key: http://www.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.h= tml ----------- FreeBSD, what else? ---- http://www.de.freebsd.org ------= ---
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