Control: tag -1 + wontfix
Hi Alex,
Alexander Bech wrote:
> the client update process from a central plugins-repository fails.
Just to be sure: That's not a regression, right? Did it work in the
past? Or have you tried that feature just the first time?
In the following I assume that it's not a regression.
> In addition, clientupdate must write the file clientversion.cfg to
> directory /etc/xymon.
Hrm, I'm not really that happy with xymon-client having write access
to its own configuration. Such files should IMHO rather go to
/var/run/xymon/. Leaves the question how they are included, but it
should be doable.
> The problem could possibly be solved by adding this to the
> xymon-client.postinst:
>
> chown -R xymon:xymon /usr/lib/xymon
> chown -R xymon:xymon /etc/xymon
Nope, that would violate multiple sections of the Debian Policy.
Basically /usr/lib/ is just for packaged contents and should only be
changed by package updates.
If that feature is used in conjunction with the Debian package, all
downloaded files should go somewhere else, e.g. to
/usr/local/lib/xymon/ or maybe even somewhere under /var/run/xymon/.
So unless someone comes up with a patch so that xymon-client first
looks in /usr/local/lib/xymon/ before looking into /usr/lib/xymon/, we
may add support for this feature to the Debian package. Otherwise this
is rather a "won't fix", sorry.
Regards, Axel
--
,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/
: :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin
`. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
`- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
