Package: sympa
Version: 5.2.3-0.5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
While installing sympa with /var/lib/sympa/ imported from an netapp :
Installing new version of config file /etc/logrotate.d/sympa ...
chown: changing ownership of `/var/lib/sympa/.snapshot': Read-only
file system
dpkg: error processing sympa (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
sympa
One solution is to ignore chown and chmod exit value :
--- debian/postinst (revision 2089)
+++ debian/postinst (working copy)
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@
perl -pi.old -e "s/^\s*listmaster.*$/listmaster\t\t$listmaster/;"
/etc/sympa/sympa.conf
rm -f /etc/sympa/sympa.conf.old
-## ensure permissions and ownerships are right
-chown -R root:root /usr/lib/sympa
-chown -R sympa:sympa /var/spool/sympa /var/lib/sympa /var/run/sympa
-chmod -R ug=rwX,o=X /var/spool/sympa /var/lib/sympa /var/run/sympa
+## ensure permissions and ownerships are right but don't clash at it
+chown -R root:root /usr/lib/sympa || true
+chown -R sympa:sympa /var/spool/sympa /var/lib/sympa /var/run/sympa || true
+chmod -R ug=rwX,o=X /var/spool/sympa /var/lib/sympa /var/run/sympa || true
if [ -e /var/log/sympa.log ] && [ ! -f /var/log/sympa.log ]; then
echo "Problem: /var/log/sympa.log already exists and it isn't a file !"
fi
@@ -364,9 +364,9 @@
exit 0
fi
- # Ensure permissions and ownerships are right
- chown -R sympa.sympa /var/spool/sympa/wws* /var/lib/sympa/wws*
- chmod -R ug=rwX,o=X /var/spool/sympa/wws* /var/lib/sympa/wws*
+ # Ensure permissions and ownerships are right but don't clash at it
+ chown -R sympa.sympa /var/spool/sympa/wws* /var/lib/sympa/wws* || true
+ chmod -R ug=rwX,o=X /var/spool/sympa/wws* /var/lib/sympa/wws* || true
## Upgrade workaround problem in case of the old web archive
## directory does not contain any archive file and was
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-xen-amd64
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages sympa depends on:
ii adduser 3.100 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.16-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcgi-fast-perl 5.8.8-6.1 CGI::Fast Perl module
ii libcrypt-ciphersaber-perl 0.61-4 Perl module implementing CipherSab
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 3.0008-1 A Perl5 database interface to the
ii libdbi-perl 1.53-1 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii libfcgi-perl 0.67-2 FastCGI Perl module
ii libintl-perl 1.16-1 Uniforum message translations syst
ii libio-stringy-perl 2.110-1 Perl5 modules for IO from scalars
ii libmailtools-perl 1.74-1 Manipulate email in perl programs
ii libmd5-perl 2.03-1 backwards-compatible wrapper for D
ii libmime-perl 5.420-0.1 Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii libmsgcat-perl 1.03-3 Locale::Msgcat perl module
ii libnet-ldap-perl 1:0.33-2 A Client interface to LDAP servers
ii libtemplate-perl 2.14-1 template processing system written
ii libxml-libxml-perl 1.59-2 Perl module for using the GNOME li
ii mhonarc 2.6.16-1 Mail to HTML converter
ii perl [libmime-base64-perl] 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-suid 5.8.8-6.1 Runs setuid Perl scripts
ii postfix [mail-transport-agen 2.3.4-3 A high-performance mail transport
ii sysklogd [system-log-daemon] 1.4.1-18 System Logging Daemon
Versions of packages sympa recommends:
ii doc-base 0.7.21 utilities to manage online documen
ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
-- debconf information:
* wwsympa/webserver_type: Apache
* sympa/listmaster: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* wwsympa/wwsympa_url: http://test.u-picardie.fr/wws
* wwsympa/webserver_restart: true
* sympa/hostname: test.u-picardie.fr
* sympa/db_options:
sympa/wwsympa_configured: true
* sympa/db_name: sympa
* sympa/db_type: MySQL
* sympa/db_configured: true
* sympa/db_hostname: localhost
* sympa/language: en_US
* sympa/use_db: true
sympa/db_removeonpurge: false
* wwsympa/remove_spool: true
* sympa/db_user: sympa
* wwsympa/fastcgi: false
* sympa/use_wwsympa: true
sympa/db_authtype: Ident-based
sympa/db_port:
sympa/remove_spool: false
* sympa/smime_support: false
Index: debian/postinst
===================================================================
--- debian/postinst (revision 2089)
+++ debian/postinst (working copy)
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@
perl -pi.old -e "s/^\s*listmaster.*$/listmaster\t\t$listmaster/;"
/etc/sympa/sympa.conf
rm -f /etc/sympa/sympa.conf.old
-## ensure permissions and ownerships are right
-chown -R root:root /usr/lib/sympa
-chown -R sympa:sympa /var/spool/sympa /var/lib/sympa /var/run/sympa
-chmod -R ug=rwX,o=X /var/spool/sympa /var/lib/sympa /var/run/sympa
+## ensure permissions and ownerships are right but don't clash at it
+chown -R root:root /usr/lib/sympa || true
+chown -R sympa:sympa /var/spool/sympa /var/lib/sympa /var/run/sympa || true
+chmod -R ug=rwX,o=X /var/spool/sympa /var/lib/sympa /var/run/sympa || true
if [ -e /var/log/sympa.log ] && [ ! -f /var/log/sympa.log ]; then
echo "Problem: /var/log/sympa.log already exists and it isn't a file !"
fi
@@ -364,9 +364,9 @@
exit 0
fi
- # Ensure permissions and ownerships are right
- chown -R sympa.sympa /var/spool/sympa/wws* /var/lib/sympa/wws*
- chmod -R ug=rwX,o=X /var/spool/sympa/wws* /var/lib/sympa/wws*
+ # Ensure permissions and ownerships are right but don't clash at it
+ chown -R sympa.sympa /var/spool/sympa/wws* /var/lib/sympa/wws* || true
+ chmod -R ug=rwX,o=X /var/spool/sympa/wws* /var/lib/sympa/wws* || true
## Upgrade workaround problem in case of the old web archive
## directory does not contain any archive file and was
