Bug 1126433 - Config file /usr/share/cacti/include/config.php is not marked as a config file in rpm
Summary: Config file /usr/share/cacti/include/config.php is not marked as a config fil...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: cacti
Version: el6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gwyn Ciesla
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-08-04 12:41 UTC by Trevor Hemsley
Modified: 2014-09-11 17:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-09-11 17:02:57 UTC
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Description Trevor Hemsley 2014-08-04 12:41:55 UTC
Description of problem:
The cacti config file in /usr/share/cacti/include/config.php is not marked as a config file in the rpm so every update replaces it and breaks systems where the user/password for the database is changed from the default

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.8.8b

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install cacti from EPEL6
2. Amend /usr/share/cacti/include/config.php to reflect your own db username etc
3. Wait for a yum update to come along and cacti stops working

Actual results:
File is replaced on yum update cacti

Expected results:
File should be marked as config so it is not replaced

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ken Dreyer 2014-09-11 17:02:57 UTC
Hi Trevor, thanks very much for the bug report.

In a traditional upstream tarball you'd typically edit the config.php file, but the Red Hat package works slightly differently. You should be updating /etc/cacti/db.php instead. That file is indeed marked as noreplace in the RPM.

You can find out more information about the Red Hat package by reading the file at /usr/share/doc/cacti-*/docs/README.fedora.

Since the expectation is that you'd edit /etc/cacti/db.php instead, I'm going to consider this issue resolved. Please re-open if you disagree. Thanks again for your contribution and thanks for using the package.


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