Bug#200268: marked as done (general: .dpkg-dist and .dpkg-old files in cron.* and modutils dirs)
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Subject: general: .dpkg-dist and .dpkg-old files in cron.* and modutils dirs
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Hi!
Problem:
I have a laptop system, I recently upgraded to sarge (from woody)
and I noticed the following problem:
I moved some script from /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.weekly (to save
power)
But when dpkg asked me whether I want to install the new version of it's
config file I answered no. Now a new file package.dpkg-dist appears and
if i answered yes the old one will be renamed to package.dpkg-old
(This is fine for normal dirs but not for these which are parsed by
*simple* scripts)
This is not the expected behaviour because now I have scripts which I
already removed, and the same applies to /etc/modutils, if a new package
makes an upgrade here, there can be duplicated entries in
/etc/modules.conf
How to solve:
If you move a new config file to a new directory it will be harder find
those files.
So dpkg should explicitly tell the user that this directory must be
checked after the upgrade or you should tell that the original/new files will
be moved to this and this directory.
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Subject: Re: Bug#200268: general: .dpkg-dist and .dpkg-old files in cron.* and modutils dirs
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In article <[🔎] E19ZHSL-0000Si-00@notebook> (local.debian-devel) you wrote:
> I have a laptop system, I recently upgraded to sarge (from woody)
> and I noticed the following problem:
> I moved some script from /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.weekly (to save
> power)
> But when dpkg asked me whether I want to install the new version of it's
> config file I answered no. Now a new file package.dpkg-dist appears and
> if i answered yes the old one will be renamed to package.dpkg-old
> (This is fine for normal dirs but not for these which are parsed by
> *simple* scripts)
No, there is no problem, because Debian's scripts are not _that_
simple. The files in /etc/cron.(daily|weekly) are executed (by crond or
anacron) using "run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily", which will ignore
these files (because of the period in the filename)
run-parts(8)
| Filenames should consist entirely of upper and lower case letters,
| digits, underscores, and hyphens. Subdirectories of directory and
| files with other names will be silently ignored.
> This is not the expected behaviour because now I have scripts which I
> already removed, and the same applies to /etc/modutils, if a new package
> makes an upgrade here, there can be duplicated entries in
> /etc/modules.conf
[...]
No, there won't be duplicated entries
update-modules(8)
| update-modules will ignore files that match the following regular
| expression: *\(\.dpkg-[a-z]*\|~\)$
| (ie files with the extension .dpkg-new, .dpkg-orig, .dpkg-dist,
| .dpkg-old, or whose filename end with a ~).
> So dpkg should explicitly tell the user that this directory must be
> checked after the upgrade or you should tell that the original/new
> files will be moved to this and this directory.
All configuration files rest in /etc, you can list them using
find /etc -name '*.dpkg-*'
cu andreas
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