Re: [Monotone-debian] Purge not working for monotone-server

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:55:20 +0100, Francis Russell 
<address@hidden> said:

francis> So, 0.48's been released and we still don't have a fix. I've committed
francis> and pushed an updated a modified monotone-server.postrm script that 
will
francis> delete the auto-generated key if it can uniquely identify it.
francis> 
francis> While testing various things, I got the impression that the cleverer we
francis> try to be, the more likely we are to break things. Hence, I've avoided
francis> looking as hash tracking for now. Also, monotone will refuse to create 
a
francis> key with duplicate name by default so I wonder if we're being too
francis> concerned about the wrong things. I also note that by storing the key
francis> name in debconf, a user could reconfigure monotone-server and get it to
francis> delete a key it didn't generate on purge :/.
francis> 
francis> Anyway I've got the point that I can no-longer break the
francis> monotone-server.postrm I've committed. It seems to have the right
francis> behaviour for key deletion and is slightly more robust in the event of
francis> already deleted files and directories.
francis> 
francis> It would be great to get a second (and third) opinion on this before
francis> handling the packaging of 0.48.

Considering I run a server that's important to many (;-)), I'd like to
help make sure it gets updated smoothly.

Cheers,
Richard

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