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           Summary: modified config files reaped after two recasts
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: Untargetted future release
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: subroutines
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: glyn AT ox.compsoc.net


libdispel's reap_config_files checks whether a spell's configuration files 
have
been modified by searching for their md5 in that spell's "md5sums" file. 
Provided that sorcery's "PRESERVE" variable is "on" (the default), recasting
(including upgrading) a spell after its configuration file has been modified
will cause the following message during installation:

Preparing to install hdparm
/etc/sysconfig/hdparm
was previously modified by SA?
Therefore, it was not reaped.

The md5 of the modified config file will be stored in the new spell's md5sums
file.  If the spell is then recast/upgraded again, without subsequent changes
to the config file, then reap_config_files sees that the md5 matches that in
the md5sums file, decides that the config file hasn't been modified, and
overwrites it with the "new" version from the updated spell, losing the
modifications made two casts earlier.

As well as the hdparm config example above, this has caused similar lost
modifications in the postfix spell's /etc/postfix/main.cf - I suspect it be 
the
cause of the most recent comment in bug 13751.

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