Re: Zabbix package's RC bugs fixed - ready for Squeeze
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Am 15.01.2011 11:30, schrieb Adam D. Barratt:
> On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 11:09 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
>> Am 15.01.2011 10:18, schrieb Adam D. Barratt:
>>> On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 01:02 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
>>> So what happens when a user upgrades from lenny to the new package?
>>
>> A debconf screen is displayed telling the user that no automatic upgrade
>> of the database is possible. The user is pointed to
>> /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-*sql/README.Debian with further
>> instructions to upgrade manually.
> [...]
>> Yes, Zabbix stops working. The users sees a lot of SQL errors on the web
>> interface. Until the user does the manual upgrade procedure Zabbix is
>> unusable. But no existing data is lost.
>
> Hrm, that's rather unfortunate. I wonder if it's worth highlighting in
> the release notes that this will happen during the upgrade process.
I'm not familiar with the policy of what goes into the release notes.
But it will definitely affect all users of the Lenny Zabbix packages.
The debconf level for the message telling the user that a manual upgrade
is necessary is "critical". We hoped that this is sufficient.
>>> + * Removed recommends for a database server from zabbix-frontend-php
>>> + package to prevent automatic installation since recommenations are
>>> + automatically installed.
> [...]
>> I made this change because it will likely fix two bugs that have been
>> downgraded from "grave" to "important" - namely #606780 and #606795.
>> During installation and upgrade tests I found that even if I chose
>> zabbix-server-pgsql (Zabbix server using a PostgreSQL backend) the
>> zabbix-frontend-php started to install a mysql-server-5.x package.
>
> Ah, I see. This does also mean that installing the PHP front-end on its
> own will no longer pull in one of the server packages, although that's
> arguably an improvement.
Exactly. The zabbix-frontend-php does not necessarily need to live on
the same server as the zabbix-server-*sql packages. So pulling in a
MySQL server that isn't needed for the frontend didn't feel right. :)
> Please go ahead.
Thank you. I will now upload the package like this:
zabbix (1:1.8.2-1squeeze2) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=high
Hope that's correct. Thanks for looking into the debdiff and approving
the upload.
Best regards
Christoph
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