Package: samba Version: 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1 In the past when I upgraded my samba packages, the samba-common.postinst script automatically copied my locally-defined shares from smb.conf onto the end of the generated smb.conf.ucf-dist file... but recently I noticed that's no longer happening.
Looking at the postinst script, I believe the problem is that the code uses the "[cdrom]" keyword as a flag for finding the end of the "as-distributed-by-the-package" section: cp /usr/share/samba/smb.conf "$NEWFILE" configure_smb_conf "$NEWFILE" if [ -e "$CONFIG" ]; then sed -e '1,/^[;#[:space:]]*\[cdrom\]/ { d } 1,/^[[:space:]]*\[/ { /^[^[]/d; /^$/d } ' "$CONFIG" >> "$NEWFILE" fi ... but (as of commit 16c3c21335025) that keyword no longer exists in the /usr/share/samba/smb.conf template file -- and thus after switching to an smb.conf file generated from that "new" template, on later package upgrades the "sed" command doesn't find that keyword any more, and thus no lines get appended at the end of $NEWFILE . Perhaps it makes sense to introduce a custom, specific comment line for this purpose? Something like # START LOCAL SHARE DEFINITIONS or whatever. (In that case, the postinst script could just copy all lines after that one from $CONFIG to $NEWFILE.) Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org