Hi, I agree with Andreas Beckmann it would be useful if a remark could be added to the release notes. I can apply a patch soon. Below snippets from previous discussion summarize the relevant parts I believe. Anybody willing to draft a patch?
Thanks, Bye, Joost Guillem Jover schreef: >On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 00:50:29 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Bug #689836: dpkg: md5sums incorrectly recorded for conffile takeover >> http://bugs.debian.org/689836 >> >> So it's broken in squeeze (dpkg database is corrupted, i.e. contains the >> wrong >> md5sums (well, it contains the correct md5sums, too, but at the wrong >> place)). Whether this happens depends on the configuration order. If >> nagios-doc is configured before nagios3-cgi it will record the new md5sum >> for >> updated conffiles for nagios3-doc instead of nagios-cgi ... even if it no >> longer owns these files. > >> I have no idea how many packages are possibly affected by this or how this >> can >> be fixed ... therefore Cc:ing Guillem. > >> Wait, we can try this: >> >> # apt-get install --reinstall nagios3-cgi [...] >> >> Great, that FIXED the DB. > > Right, it should just be either a matter of time, once every problematic > package has been upgraded after getting a fixed dpkg, or people actively > reinstalling broken packages. In any case, for wheezy I guess it would > be nice to strongly recommend on the release notes to upgrade dpkg first. Andreas Beckmann schreef: >On 2013-03-02 07:35, Alexander Wirt wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Mar 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: >> >>> Based on the bug discussion, I believe this bug against nagios3-cgi should >>> be closed. The problem is with the dpkg database, and it doesn't sound >>> like there's anything the package needs to (or should do) to deal with >>> that issue; it's fixed by either dealing with the prompt during upgrade or >>> reinstalling the package. >> agreed, so I'll close this bug now. > >Shouldn't this be mentioned in the release-notes? >apt-get install --reinstall *before* the upgrade is an easy workaround - >if we make people aware of it. > > >Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
