Bug#994564: RFS: sosreport/4.2-1 -- Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system

* [sos.conf]

The right configuration location is in '/etc/sos' and the package contains it.

I'll look at why and how the package ends up having '/usr/config/sos.conf' too:

# dpkg -l sosreport
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=========================================================
ii sosreport 4.2-1 amd64 Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system

# dpkg -L sosreport | grep -i sos.conf
/etc/sos/sos.conf -> Well placed
/usr/config/sos.conf -> Misplaced
/usr/share/man/man5/sos.conf.5.gz

* [manpages mangled]

I looked most man pages:

man sos-report

man sos-collect

man sos-mask

....

I couldn't find anything mangled. Do you have an example I can refer too ?

[builtin modules]

I'll look into it and see what can be done.

[Running services]

"it fails to list running services, and probably many more"

Are you referring to 'path_to_sosreport/ps' collection ? Or other services ?

[systemd/rc-agnostic]

sos project main focus is on systemd. Most of the other 'init' type as been removed (upstart, ...): 297011da [upstart] Remove plugin

On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 5:22 AM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 02:53:36PM -0400, Eric Desrochers wrote:
> * Package name : sosreport
> Version : 4.2-1

> sosreport (4.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> .
> * New 4.2 upstream release.
> - This release contains numerous improvements
> and bug fixes to several components within sos,
> including an overhaul to the project's test suite
> and infrastructure.
> .
> * For more details, full release note is available here:
> - https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.2
> .
> * Former patches, now fixed:
> - d/p/0002-fix-dict-order-py38-incompatibility.patch
> - d/p/0003-systemd-prefer-resolvectl-over-systemd-resolve.patch
> .
> * Remaining patches:
> - d/p/0001-debian-change-tmp-dir-location.patch

Hi!
There's an obviously misplaced file: /usr/config/sos.conf

The man pages are mangled, at least their headers.

Upstreamish issues:
* when run, it spams about missing kernel modules despites them being
built-in. It _tries_ to detect them, but by looking into a bogus
path (/usr/lib/modules/%s/modules.builtin -- it's in /lib/); it should
check /sys/module/ instead of assuming the running kernel is available
on the disk.
* it fails to list running services, and probably many more. I see it
hard-codes systemd specific commands instead of rc-agnostic ones.

And upstreamish but really should be patched: the "Debian" module knows
only about wheezy and jessie...

Meow!
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