Package: roundcube
Version: 1.1.5+dfsg.1-1~bpo8+1
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
My goal is to install roundcube unattended using postgres as the backend.
Here is what I did to accomplish this.
1. Install roundcube interactively and verify it is configured correctly.
Packages to install: roundcube-pgsql, roundcube-plugins, roundcube-core,
roundcube.
2. Use `debconf-get-selections` to get the roundcube options.
3. Remove and purge the packages installed in Step 1.
4. Use `debconf-get-selections` to verify there are no roundcube options
in the deconf database.
5. Preseed the debconf database with the options recorded from Step 2.
6. Install roundcube and the associated packages noninteractively.
When Step 6 runs, mysql is used for the backend instead of postgres. After
Step 6, inspecting the option `roundcube/database-type` shows it was changed
from `pgsql` to `mysql`. A few other options were changed also, all
related to db configuration. Ultimately, I was left with a misconfigured
and malfunctioning install.
What I expected was roundcube-core to use the options in the preseeded debconf
database.
Perusing templates and source, I saw that dbconfig-common is used to configure
the backend. I may be preseeding the debconf database incorrectly, but some
experiments preseeding dbconfig-common didn't change anything.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.5.5-x86_64-linode69 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages roundcube-core depends on:
ii dbconfig-common 1.8.47+nmu3+deb8u1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii dpkg 1.17.27
ii libapache2-mod-php5 5.6.22+dfsg-0+deb8u1
ii libmagic1 1:5.22+15-2+deb8u1
ii php-auth-sasl 1.0.6-1+deb8u1
ii php-mail-mime 1.8.9-1+deb8u1
ii php-net-sieve 1.3.2-4
ii php-net-smtp 1.6.2-2
ii php-net-socket 1.0.14-1
ii php-patchwork-utf8 1.1.25-1
ii php-pear 5.6.22+dfsg-0+deb8u1
ii php5 5.6.22+dfsg-0+deb8u1
ii php5-cli 5.6.22+dfsg-0+deb8u1
ii php5-common 5.6.22+dfsg-0+deb8u1
ii php5-intl 5.6.22+dfsg-0+deb8u1
ii php5-json 1.3.6-1
ii php5-mcrypt 5.6.22+dfsg-0+deb8u1
ii roundcube-pgsql 1.1.5+dfsg.1-1~bpo8+1
ii ucf 3.0030
Versions of packages roundcube-core recommends:
ii apache2 [httpd-cgi] 2.4.10-10+deb8u4
ii php5-gd 5.6.22+dfsg-0+deb8u1
ii php5-pspell 5.6.22+dfsg-0+deb8u1
Versions of packages roundcube-core suggests:
pn php-crypt-gpg <none>
pn php-net-ldap2 <none>
pn php-net-ldap3 <none>
ii roundcube-plugins 1.1.5+dfsg.1-1~bpo8+1
Versions of packages roundcube depends on:
ii dpkg 1.17.27
-- debconf information:
roundcube/mysql/admin-pass: (password omitted)
roundcube/app-password-confirm: (password omitted)
* roundcube/pgsql/admin-pass: (password omitted)
* roundcube/pgsql/app-pass: (password omitted)
roundcube/mysql/app-pass: (password omitted)
roundcube/password-confirm: (password omitted)
roundcube/install-error: abort
* roundcube/dbconfig-remove:
* roundcube/remove-error: abort
* roundcube/upgrade-backup: true
roundcube/pgsql/no-empty-passwords:
roundcube/passwords-do-not-match:
* roundcube/pgsql/authmethod-user: password
* roundcube/internal/reconfiguring: false
* roundcube/reconfigure-webserver: apache2, lighttpd
* roundcube/dbconfig-upgrade: true
roundcube/remote/host:
* roundcube/pgsql/admin-user: postgres
roundcube/pgsql/changeconf: false
* roundcube/upgrade-error: abort
roundcube/language: en_US
roundcube/pgsql/manualconf:
* roundcube/dbconfig-reinstall: false
* roundcube/pgsql/method: TCP/IP
* roundcube/missing-db-package-error: abort
* roundcube/dbconfig-install: true
roundcube/mysql/admin-user: root
roundcube/mysql/method: unix socket
* roundcube/changeconf: false
roundcube/remote/newhost:
* roundcube/db/dbname: roundcube
* roundcube/db/app-user: roundcube
roundcube/remote/port:
roundcube/db/basepath:
roundcube/internal/skip-preseed: false
* roundcube/restart-webserver: true
roundcube/hosts:
* roundcube/pgsql/authmethod-admin: ident
* roundcube/database-type: mysql
roundcube/purge: false
