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samba package

  1. Bug #312449
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 312449

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote :

Yes, the following in samba-common.postinst:
  ucf --three-way --debconf-ok "$NEWFILE" "$CONFIG"
  ucfr samba-common "$CONFIG"
  chmod a+r "$CONFIG"
results in:
  Not replacing deleted config file /etc/samba/smb.conf
  chmod: cannot access `/etc/samba/smb.conf': No such file or directory

If the file is deleted, it should probably reinstall a pristine version, rather than just "Not replacing" it and letting chmod fail :)

It's still something that shouldn't happen (/etc conffiles should be removed by purge, not manually) but given the number of updates that fail for this reason a more graceful handling of this corner case is definitely wanted.