Package: tftpd-hpa Version: 5.0-5 Severity: normal This system originally had tftpd-hpa 0.49-1 installed, last Match. At that time, /etc/default/tftpd.hpa was created with contents:
#Defaults for tftpd-hpa RUN_DAEMON="no" OPTIONS="-l -s /var/lib/tftpboot" This file was never manually changed (says etckeeper). I upgraded directly from 0.49-1 to 5.0-5. At that time, the old file was wiped out and a new one with some #DEBCONF# token inserted. This new file changes to the directory to /srv/tftp. Of course, I only noticed that the config file had been changed when I had a power failure and boxes failed to come up since the tftp server was serving up an empty directory. That this seemed to happen without even a warning is not good. Debconf was apparently told to display the tftpd-hpa/no-debconf-token message, at low priority. This upgrade was a week ago, but I do not remember seeing it. The question is asked at low priority; my debconf priority is high; so it seems likely I never did see it. (However, the config script would apparently exit nonzero if the question was asked but not shown, since the db_input command is unguarded there. I don't know how to reconcile this with me not seeing the message. (BTW, you're misusing an error template type here; errors are for well, hard errors; your config script does not, normally, fail after displaying this "error".)) In any event, even if I had seen the message, it says that the config file will not be modified unless it contains the #DEBCONF# token. But that is false. In the preinst there is code that checks if the config file has been unchanged since lenny, and if so, blows it away. Even if the config file has been locally modified, it *still* moves it out of the way so the local modifications do not take effect. I think that you have not thought this upgrade though. tftpd is a crucial network service, it is not acceptable to discard local changes to a configuration file, it is also not acceptable to move the tftpd directory elsewhere without involving the sysadmin in the move. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: armel (armv5tel) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-iop32x Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages tftpd-hpa depends on: ii adduser 3.111 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-18 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra tftpd-hpa recommends no packages. Versions of packages tftpd-hpa suggests: ii syslinux-common 2:3.83+dfsg-1 Kernel loader which uses a FAT, ex -- debconf information: tftpd-hpa/directory: /srv/tftp tftpd-hpa/username: tftp * tftpd-hpa/no-debconf-token: tftpd-hpa/use_inetd: true -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
