Re: Please rebuild exim4 with libdb4.2-dev
Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> The recent backport of exim4 depends on libdb4.3, which renders the old
> hints databases of exim4 useless, since they were created with libdb4.2.
The backport has switched the same time as Debian/sid, i.e.
with the first 4.62 upload.
> This is just a minor but still annoying fault, because it fills the
> logfile with error messages.
No idea how this could happen, the backport's exim4-base.postinst
(identical to the unstable version) tries to make sure that all hints
are zapped on this upgrade, first by a version check and secondly by
checking whether exim_dumpdb can read the files.
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case "$1" in
configure)
[...]
if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" '<=' "4.61-1" ; then
rm -f /var/spool/exim4/db/misc-* /var/spool/exim4/db/wait-* \
/var/spool/exim4/db/callout* \
/var/spool/exim4/db/retry* \
/var/spool/exim4/db/__db.retry \
/var/spool/exim4/db/__db.misc \
/var/spool/exim4/db/__db.callout \
/var/spool/exim4/db/__db.wait*
fi
# Check that db files are readable by this Exim's db library
dbfiles=""
for f in /var/spool/exim4/db/misc-* /var/spool/exim4/db/wait-* \
/var/spool/exim4/db/callout* /var/spool/exim4/db/retry*; do
if [ -f "$f" ]; then
if echo $f | grep \.lockfile\$ >/dev/null 2>&1; then
: # ignore lock files
else
dbfiles="$dbfiles `basename $f`"
fi
fi
done
for dbfile in $dbfiles; do
if exim_dumpdb /var/spool/exim4 $dbfile >/dev/null 2>&1; then
: # File OK
else
echo "Resetting invalid $dbfile hints db"
rm -f /var/spool/exim4/db/$dbfile /var/spool/exim4/db/$dbfile.*
fi
done
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Did we miss a hint file?
cu andreas who uploaded the backport.
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