[Bug 5517] New: After removal of koha-common package in Debian Squeeze cron jobs are not deleted
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 Summary: After removal of koha-common package in Debian Squeeze cron jobs are not deleted Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: rel_3_2 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: Packaging AssignedTo: robin@catalyst.net.nz ReportedBy: gaurav.paliwal1989@gmail.com QAContact: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Estimated Hours: 0.0 When someone remove the koha-common in debian squeeze the cron jobs that are automatically added at the time of installation are not automatically removed even after the complete removal of the koha-common package. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #1 from Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> 2010-12-17 11:46:24 UTC --- Hi, thanks for reporting this. I hope to do some work on the packages in the start of the week coming, so will try to look at it then. One thing, can you tell me whether or not you modified the cronjob files or not in between installing and removing them? Also, if you don't mind trying a bit more, I'd be interested to know if doing 'apt-get purge koha-common' rather than 'apt-get remove koha-common' makes a difference, either way they _should_ get removed, it's just another data point. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 |P4 Severity|enhancement |minor -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 --- Comment #2 from Gaurav Paliwal <gaurav.paliwal1989@gmail.com> 2010-12-17 13:30:39 UTC ---
Hi, thanks for reporting this. I hope to do some work on the packages in the start of the week coming, so will try to look at it then.
cool
One thing, can you tell me whether or not you modified the cronjob files or not in between installing and removing them?
No , I haven't done any change in it.
Also, if you don't mind trying a bit more, I'd be interested to know if doing 'apt-get purge koha-common' rather than 'apt-get remove koha-common' makes a difference, either way they _should_ get removed, it's just another data point.
-- The problem is that when we remove the koha-common package using <apt-get remove koha-common> the service koha-common continues to run in the background , as so as the cron job. as far as 'apt-get purge koha-common' is concerned I will soon try it out , and reply back to you. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chris@bigballofwax.co.nz --- Comment #3 from Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> --- I wonder if purge was ever tried? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 --- Comment #4 from Gaurav Paliwal <gaurav.paliwal1989@gmail.com> --- apt-get purge koha-common worked fine. Now jobs are also deleted. Thanks :) Sorry for the late response. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |swarren@wwwdotorg.org --- Comment #5 from Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> --- apt-get remove isn't supposed to remove config files, only binary files. /etc/cron.d/koha-common is a config file, so this is expected. Reference: http://linuxprograms.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/dpkg-purge-versus-remove/ (and I'm sure there are other more authoritative sources; that's just the first thing I found via Google) Note that this does mean the content of /etc/cron.d/koha-common has a bug; in 3.18 at least, one of the entries protects against that situation when the command it's going to execute is not executable (which covers when it's missing): */5 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/koha-rebuild-zebra && koha-rebuild-zebra -q $(koha-list --enabled) However, the other entry doesn't, so will likely cause permission denied or file not found errors if the package is removed not purged: */15 * * * * root koha-foreach --enabled --email /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/process_message_queue.pl That command should probably have a "test -x XXX &&" prefix. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEW --- Comment #6 from Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> --- Yep, I just looked in policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3 and cron files are explicitly conffiles (defined in 10.7.1.) So stay they will. However, Stephen is totally correct, we should be testing for the existence of everything before executing it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 Galen Charlton <gmcharlt@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|rel_3_2 |master Assignee|robin@catalyst.net.nz |gmcharlt@gmail.com CC| |gmcharlt@gmail.com -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
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