Bug 487316 – net-proxy/http-replicator-4.0_alpha2 - ?

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description PetaMem R&D 2013-10-08 14:02:10 UTC]

Version 3.0 works flawlessly here.

Update to 4.0_alpha2, Error "Bad option /data/install/http-replicator"
(which is the cache dir)

Tried numerous things. like

* renaming http-replicator to simply cache
* renaming option "--dir" to "-r" then "--root"

Only thing that helped was downgrade to 3.0 version.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to 4.0_alpha2
2. try /etc/init.d/http-replicator restart
3. fail

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-10-08 14:28:34 UTC]

What complains how?

1) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.
2) Please attach then entire build log to this bug report, if emerge is what complained.

[Comment 2 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2013-10-08 15:42:56 UTC]

Does the directory (or just its parents) perhaps not exist?

Can you obtain more information about what it really does with strace?

[Comment 3 PetaMem R&D 2013-10-08 16:17:08 UTC]

*sigh*

not the emerge complains, the app (successfully emerged) complains.

When invoking http-replicator 4.0_alpha2 via

/etc/init.d/http-replicator restart

it complains with the aforementioned error.

Of course the directory exists.

[Comment 4 Ben Kohler 2013-10-08 21:53:34 UTC]

Can you please attach your /etc/conf.d/http-replicator file?

[Comment 5 PetaMem R&D 2013-10-09 06:35:32 UTC]

Created attachment 360456 [details]
http-replicator config file

here it is. As I wrote, works with 3.0 but not 4.0

According to help, 4.0 doesn't know the --dir option trying to change that into -r (--root) didn't help either.

[Comment 6 Ben Kohler 2013-10-09 16:14:45 UTC]

I believe GENERAL_OPTS should have "--dir /var/cache/http-replicator/" while DAEMON_OPTS should have "--root /var/cache/http-replicator/".  Why do you set DAEMON_OPTS="$GENERAL_OPTS"?

[Comment 7 PetaMem R&D 2013-10-09 16:22:01 UTC]

Me?

I didn't set anything. That is the http-replicator file as was "always there".

[Comment 8 Ben Kohler 2013-10-09 16:31:05 UTC]

I see now, this line was present in the 3.0 config, not present in the 4.0 config.  Try "emerge -1 --noconfmem http-replicator" then use dispatch-conf or etc-update to see config changes, you should see this in the diff output:

-## Don't change or comment this out:
-DAEMON_OPTS=" $GENERAL_OPTS"

then later

+DAEMON_OPTS="--root /var/cache/http-replicator/"

So in short, update your config to use the new DAEMON_OPTS setting that comes as default in the 4.0 config (you can use your own custom path for the cache, but make sure it has --root and not --dir)

[Comment 9 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2013-10-09 17:05:51 UTC]

The config changed between 3 and 4, which I have mentioned in the post installation messages which goes like:

> Starting with 4.x releases, the conf.d parameters have changed.

Please try to correct the configuration to the new format, an example which can be seen at http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-proxy/http-replicator/files/http-replicator-4.0_alpha2-r2.conf and which was reported working by someone else during the original version bump; if you are not able to resolve this by adapting the new config, please reopen the bug and reattach your new config.