Bug#129104: bug 129104 (buffer overflow + template reading in cgiemail)
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 02:27:51AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any progress with this cgiemail bug? If you've got the debconf stuff
> written, I could test it if that would help ...
I worked on it significantly today, and will finish it tomorrow. This
is my spring break, so I finally have some time. I'm getting kind of
hung up on how to preserve user modifications to the configuration file
yet still have dpkg-reconfigure do anything.
The problem: i am wondering, in the postinst, how to handle the
following cases (or if i should handle them):
- already configured, don't reconfigure (normal)
- already configured, reconfigure (that is, change the config file)
(e.g. user runs dpkg-reconfigure)
- already configured, then changed manually, don't reconfigure (e.g.
user changes config and then upgrades package)
- already configured, then changed manually, reconfigure (e.g. user
somehow manages to break configuration and runs dpkg-reconfigure or
dpkg --configure (would the latter one ever happen?)).
the last three are the problem. i will sleep on it and try to figure it
out, but if you know the Right Way then point me at it if you would. I
will start working on it again probably late tomorrow afternoon.
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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