Re: [Sks-devel] 1.1.5 is in wheezy-backports

[Karl Schmitz]

Hi Daniel,

Am 05.06.2014 20:32, schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> On 06/05/2014 07:44 AM, Karl Schmitz wrote:
>> IMHO, the account check is a bit exaggerated, isn't it? The
>> administrator should be free to alter debian-sks's home.
> Well, the maintainer scripts and general defaults all assume that
> /var/lib/sks is where the data will be stored.  If the packaging accepts
> that the homedir is someplace else, but the data might be in yet another
> place (which the maintainer scripts don't know anything about), that
> could be a problem, and the maintainer scripts don't want to blunder
> ahead if they aren't sure what's happened.
>
> One thing you can do to keep stuff "pretty" while accomodating
> filesystem space is to bind-mount /srv/sks to /var/lib/sks and leave
> everything else alone.
>
> this would mean adding the following to your /etc/fstab (*after* /var
> and /srv are mounted):
>
>    /srv/sks /var/lib/sks none bind
>
> This way, you don't have to worry about any symlink weirdness.
no symlink weirdness at all. I still prefer them over bind mounts
wherever possible.
One of the reasons: Ever seen df(1) output when having lots of bind
mounts? Duplicate entries all over...
>> Also, checking free space on /var before taking the backup would be nice
>> (possibly with an option to specify an alternate backup directory).
>> The backup almost filled up my root file system.
> yep, this is https://bugs.debian.org/678924 -- sorry about that, we're
> hoping to address that in a new revision soon.
>
>> Besides these minor issues: well done! My server is running SKS 1.1.5 now.
> glad it worked for you, and thanks for the reportback.
Works like a charm after working around. Can't wait to upgrade to
1.1.6... :-)

Kind regards,

Karl

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