Re: [Monotone-debian] Purge not working for monotone-server

[Thomas Keller]

Am 07.06.2010 15:04, schrieb Francis Russell:
> One of the Debian build checking tools spotted that monotone-server no
> longer deletes its key when purged. The script current just assumes that
> the filename is the same as the key id, but this is no longer the case,
> as 'mtn genkey' now also adds the hash to the filename.
> 
> This seems to be a choice between deleting $MTN_KEY.* which seems
> dangerous, or trying to store the key's actual filename in a db which
> seems error prone especially considering this would only work for newly
> generated keys.
> 
> Any thoughts?

You could try to determine if there is more than one key with the same
name, like this:

mtn ls keys | grep $MTN_KEY | cut -d " " -f1 | uniq

If there is only one, concatenate $MTN_KEY with the hash output from the
above command and remove the key file. If there is more than one, issue
a warning to the user that the key is not deleted because the correct
one could not be determined.

For future installations it might be a good idea to store the key ID
instead of the key's given name - then a rm -f $KEY_DIR/*.$KEY_ID should
be ok.

Thomas.

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