Bug 93507 – webapp-config and/or gallery update axed my installation

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Josh 2005-05-21 23:11:56 UTC]

I expect this is due to a bug with the webapp-config ebuild, but don't know how 
to track it down or determine the package at fault.  It could also be the 
gallery package.  It may be that I misunderstand how webapp-config is supposed 
to work.

Command run was:
emerge  --verbose --update --deep apache mod_php gallery

Actual packages installed/updated:
1116466508:  === (1 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-libs/apr-0.9.6-r3::/usr/
portage/dev-libs/apr/apr-0.9.6-r3.ebuild)
1116466604:  === (2 of 17) Compiling/Merging (app-misc/mime-types-2::/usr/
portage/app-misc/mime-types/mime-types-2.ebuild)
1116466612:  === (3 of 17) Compiling/Merging (sys-process/cronbase-0.3.2::/usr/
portage/sys-process/cronbase/cronbase-0.3.2.ebuild)
1116466625:  === (4 of 17) Compiling/Merging (net-www/gentoo-webroot-default-0.
2::/usr/portage/net-www/gentoo-webroot-default/gentoo-webroot-default-0.2.
ebuild)
1116466635:  === (5 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e-r1::/usr/
portage/dev-libs/openssl/openssl-0.9.7e-r1.ebuild)
1116466861:  === (6 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.6-r2::/usr/
portage/dev-libs/apr-util/apr-util-0.9.6-r2.ebuild)
1116466906:  === (7 of 17) Compiling/Merging (net-www/apache-2.0.54-r5::/usr/
portage/net-www/apache/apache-2.0.54-r5.ebuild)
1116467193:  === (8 of 17) Compiling/Merging (net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r3::/usr/
portage/net-libs/libwww/libwww-5.4.0-r3.ebuild)
1116467470:  === (9 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.38::/usr/
portage/dev-perl/Net-Daemon/Net-Daemon-0.38.ebuild)
1116467486:  === (10 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-perl/Storable-2.13::/usr/
portage/dev-perl/Storable/Storable-2.13.ebuild)
1116467506:  === (11 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-perl/DBI-1.46::/usr/portage/
dev-perl/DBI/DBI-1.46.ebuild)
1116467533:  === (12 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.9003::/usr/
portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql/DBD-mysql-2.9003.ebuild)
1116467558:  === (13 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.17::/usr/
portage/dev-libs/libxml2/libxml2-2.6.17.ebuild)
1116467774:  === (14 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.2.1::/usr/
portage/dev-libs/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.1.ebuild)
1116467860:  === (15 of 17) Compiling/Merging (dev-php/mod_php-4.3.11-r2::/usr/
portage/dev-php/mod_php/mod_php-4.3.11-r2.ebuild)
1116468175:  === (16 of 17) Compiling/Merging (net-www/webapp-config-1.10-r14::/
usr/portage/net-www/webapp-config/webapp-config-1.10-r14.ebuild)
1116468196:  === (17 of 17) Compiling/Merging (www-apps/gallery-1.5::/usr/
portage/www-apps/gallery/gallery-1.5.ebuild)

After this run I found that my installation of gallery was no longer present.  
The albums directory, and config.php were all that was left.  There was an 
installation in /var/www/localhost of the new version of gallery (1.5).  An 
emerge of 1.5 into the directory brought it back to life.  The version of 1.4.
4_p6 had been installed by webapp-config previously.

I expect that the upgrade of webapp-config is what caused the problem, since I 
don't think any of the other ebuilds would know of or mess with the directory.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install gallery-1.4.4_p6
2. Install webapp-config 1.10-r11
3. Install gallery to /var/www/gallery.example.com
4. Upgrade webapp-config 

Actual Results:  
The directory /var/www/gallery.example.com/htdocs was emptied, except for the 
config.php file, and the albums subdirectory.

Expected Results:  
When upgrading webapp-config and/or gallery I don't expect to lose a site.  
Worst case I would expect it to be upgraded to the new version, but ideally it 
would be installed in /usr/share/webapps/appname/version for me to update as I 
can.

I have changed my make.conf since the upgrade, adding vhosts to the USE flags.

toaster log # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.
20041102-r1, 2.6.11-hardened-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 13 2005, 01:24:39)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.9.5, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/
config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 alsa apache2 berkdb bzlib crypt fortran gdbm gif jpeg libg++ libwww mp3 
mysql ncurses no-suexec pam perl php png python readline spell ssl tcpd vhosts 
xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2005-05-30 05:03:39 UTC]

Did you have vhosts in your USE flags when you encountered this problem?

Best regards,
Stu

[Comment 2 Josh 2005-05-30 14:30:22 UTC]

I added vhosts after the fact, it was not in USE when I installed.  The vhost 
that the app is configured under is not the main host.

[Comment 3 Renat Lumpau (RETIRED) 2005-06-30 13:07:43 UTC]

As far as I understand, webapp-config shouldn't have uninstalled gallery, unless
you executed emerge -C gallery.

Please try with webapp-config-1.11 and gallery-1.5, and reopen the bug if the
problem persists.