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On 2016-08-19 Bob Goldberg <bobg.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.80-7+deb7u3
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
[...]
> * What led up to the situation?
> needed to update exim4 to shut off "purging environment" warning
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> after changing conf files, ran update-exim4.conf
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> discovered that running the update does NOT UPDATE A SINGLE THING.
> discovered that update script EXPRESSLY checks for existence of
> /etc/exim4/exim4.conf and IF /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated is
> EQUAL TO ITSELF!!!!!??? THEN EXIT - un-ceremoniously.
I think you are misreading the script:
# exit immediately if /etc/exim4/exim4.conf exists and -o was not specified
if [ -e /etc/exim4/exim4.conf ] && \
[ "${UPEX4C_outputfile}" = "${UPEX4C_autoconfigfile}" ] ; then
exit 0
fi
There is no "equal to itself"-check here. UPEX4C_outputfile is the
output file. It is set to UPEX4C_autoconfigfile by default, but can be
overridden with -o. The tests therefore checks whether -o was passed to
the script.
> man page and docs for this script say NOTHING about specifying -o
[...]
Quoting manual page update-exim4.conf.8:
-------------------
-o|--output file
Write output to file instead of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogener‐
ated.
[...]
update-exim4.conf exits silently and does nothing if
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf exists and -o was not used to direct the output
to a different file than /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.
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cu Andreas
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