[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#587154: Bug#587154: Sympa upgrade overwrites current .conf files

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:32:59AM +0100, Mitar wrote:
>I have been also bitten by this with sympa-6.1.1~dfsg. I opted for 
>"expert" (not using dbconfig) mode when installing sympa and the result 
>was:
>
>Installation script was saying that there is unknown database type 
>(empty) as of course there was nothing configured in 
>/etc/dbconfig-common/sympa.conf. I had to set database type there even 
>if I don't want to use it. And rerun installation.

With "rerun installation" you mean "dpkg-reconfigure sympa" or...?


>Then it overwrote my database settings in sympa.conf (comment old out 
>values and set empty/wrong values). And so it again failed installing 
>it. I just could not make values stick.


  - Jonas

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