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Subject: apt-listbugs: cron.daily destroys the contents of symlinked
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Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.0.47
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
I have a network where /etc/apt/preferences (and a lot of other files
in /etc on various machines) are symlinked to a NFS-mounted drive so
they can be changed globally. Unfortunately, the cron.daily file for
apt-listbugs doesn't take this into account, and so when it makes a
backup of the file before changing it, only creates a backup symlink,
then edits the first file, destroying all of the contents in the
master.
If you had a complex preferences file, and you don't have a backup,
this is very, very bad. If you don't notice it before the next
night's autoupgrade sequence suddenly tries to update a bunch of
machines on your network to unstable, breaking them all, that is even
worse.
I managed to avoid this fate only barely. Eventually, someone else
isn't going to be as fortunate, and become very unhappy with Debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10.erdos
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_US)
Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
ii apt 0.5.27 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libdpkg-ruby1.8 0.3.1 modules/classes for dpkg on ruby 1
ii libintl-gettext-ruby1.8 0.11-5 Gettext wrapper for Ruby 1.8
ii libruby1.8 [libzlib-ruby1.8] 1.8.2-3 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii libxml-parser-ruby1.8 0.6.8-1 Interface of expat for the scripti
ii ruby 1.8.1-8 An interpreter of object-oriented
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From: Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Bug#301671: fixed in apt-listbugs 0.0.48
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Source: apt-listbugs
Source-Version: 0.0.48
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
apt-listbugs, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
apt-listbugs_0.0.48.dsc
to pool/main/a/apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs_0.0.48.dsc
apt-listbugs_0.0.48.tar.gz
to pool/main/a/apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs_0.0.48.tar.gz
apt-listbugs_0.0.48_all.deb
to pool/main/a/apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs_0.0.48_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:12:09 +0900
Source: apt-listbugs
Binary: apt-listbugs
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.0.48
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
apt-listbugs - Lists critical bugs before each apt installation
Closes: 301005 301671
Changes:
apt-listbugs (0.0.48) unstable; urgency=high
.
* Urgency=high because the previous version has a critical bug
and removed from sarge.
* Fixed symlink-case problem of prefernces file handling (closes: #301671).
- Use existing preferences file and remove cp -a permission keep hack.
- Backup /etc/apt/preferneces by cp -aH under /var/backups/.
- Use savelog for files in /var/backups/.
- Thanks paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for his work to fix this problem.
* Added Depends: libruby1.8 (>= 1.8.1) because rss/maker is available
from this version (closes: #301005).
Files:
3ad58f06ce11f443c382bff0bef2d68c 559 admin optional apt-listbugs_0.0.48.dsc
8bd5a5cdf9148a8af3f73b1a1ef6dc3a 65946 admin optional
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apt-listbugs_0.0.48_all.deb
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