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Bug#587154: Sympa upgrade overwrites current .conf files

January 24th, 2011 - 03:40 am ET by Mitar | Report spam
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I have been also bitten by this with sympa-6.1.1~dfsg. I opted for
"expert" (not using dbconfig) mode when installing sympa and the
result was:

Installation script was saying that there is unknown database type
(empty) as of course there was nothing configured in
/etc/dbconfig-common/sympa.conf. I had to set database type there even
if I don't want to use it. And rerun installation.

Then it overwrote my database settings in sympa.conf (comment old out
values and set empty/wrong values). And so it again failed installing
it. I just could not make values stick.



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#1 Jonas Smedegaard
January 24th, 2011 - 07:00 am ET | Report spam

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:32:59AM +0100, Mitar wrote:
I have been also bitten by this with sympa-6.1.1~dfsg. I opted for
"expert" (not using dbconfig) mode when installing sympa and the result
was:

Installation script was saying that there is unknown database type
(empty) as of course there was nothing configured in
/etc/dbconfig-common/sympa.conf. I had to set database type there even
if I don't want to use it. And rerun installation.



With "rerun installation" you mean "dpkg-reconfigure sympa" or...?


Then it overwrote my database settings in sympa.conf (comment old out
values and set empty/wrong values). And so it again failed installing
it. I just could not make values stick.




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