Bug#258145: postinst: lossage with "a2enmod userdir"
Package: apache2-common
Version: 2.0.50-1
Severity: important
apache2-common.postinst contains an unconditional call to
a2enmod userdir
, which is prone to failure for various reasons. The main problem is
that it is not idempotent, as a2enmod exits with status 1 if the
module is already enabled; please either fix it to exit 0 in that case
or run a2enmod only if /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.load doesn't
already exist. (The call should probably also be conditional on
upgrading from versions prior to 2.0.50-1, for the sake of weird
administrators who don't actually want to enable the module.)
In addition, a2enmod failed the first time around because I'd already
symlinked userdir.conf over; perhaps it should run "ln -sf" rather
than just "ln -s".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages apache2-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.29 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libapr0 2.0.50-1 The Apache Portable Runtime
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-16 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libldap2 2.1.30-1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libmagic1 4.09-1 File type determination library us
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-3 SSL shared libraries
ii mime-support 3.26-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii net-tools 1.60-10 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii openssl 0.9.7d-3 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii ssl-cert 1.0-8 Simple debconf wrapper for openssl
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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