Package: bcfg2
Version: 1.0.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The Bcfg2 client ignores configuration entries such as
<Path name='/tmp/delete-me' type='nonexistent'/>
which are used to specify that the named file path shouldn't exist. The
problem can be reproduced like this:
# touch /tmp/delete-me
# cat >/tmp/config.xml <<'EOF'
> <Configuration>
> <Independent>
> <Path name='/tmp/delete-me' type='nonexistent'/>
> </Independent>
> </Configuration>
> EOF
# bcfg2 -v -f /tmp/config.xml
# ls /tmp/delete-me
Upstream fixed this bug in Git commit 5eaff14ec2:
http://git.mcs.anl.gov/bcfg2.git/commit/5eaff14ec2
It would be nice if this (trivial) fix could be backported to squeeze,
see the attached patch.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bcfg2 depends on:
ii debsums 2.0.48+nmu3 tool for verification of installed
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze6 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-apt 0.7.100.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii python-lxml 2.2.8-2 pythonic binding for the libxml2 a
ii python-support 1.0.10 automated rebuilding support for P
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv
bcfg2 recommends no packages.
bcfg2 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
diff -ur bcfg2-1.0.1.orig/src/lib/Client/Tools/POSIX.py bcfg2-1.0.1/src/lib/Client/Tools/POSIX.py
--- bcfg2-1.0.1.orig/src/lib/Client/Tools/POSIX.py 2009-10-30 03:09:15.000000000 +0100
+++ bcfg2-1.0.1/src/lib/Client/Tools/POSIX.py 2011-04-29 20:56:34.866339231 +0200
@@ -698,14 +698,6 @@
ret = getattr(self, 'InstallConfigFile')
return ret(entry)
- def Verifynonexistent(self, entry, _):
- # FIXME: not implemented
- return True
-
- def Installnonexistent(self, entry):
- # FIXME: not implemented
- return True
-
def Verifypermissions(self, entry, _):
ret = getattr(self, 'VerifyPermissions')
return ret(entry, _)
