[Users] Fwd: [Bug 107436] do-release-upgrade breaks zimbra installation.

[Barry de Graaff]

Marc pointed me to an interesting bugzilla...

I am sharing it for people that do dist upgrades.

Barry


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From: "Marc Gadsdon" <mg at in-tuition.net>
To: info at barrydegraaff.tk
Sent: Sunday, 10 September, 2017 15:20:02
Subject: Fwd: [Bug 107436] do-release-upgrade breaks zimbra installation.

Hi Barry, 

I don't fully understand the implications of the differences between the two repros he's talking about, but it seemed like something you might like to know about!

Marc

----- On 10 Sep, 2017, at 00:38,  DONOTREPLY at zimbra.com wrote:

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> --- Comment #24 from Bo Kersey <bo at vircio.com> ---
> This is really not such a big deal.....  One major snafu is that someone in
> Synacor Zimbra Packaging Services <packaging-devel at zimbra.com> needs to get
> packages in the xenial repo in sync with the packages in the trusty repo since
> the the trusty version (7b9) has upstream fixes for ITS#8448, ITS#8460,
> ITS#8462, ITS#8490, ITS#8493 that are not in 7b8.  Looks like it has been this
> way for a long time...  The patch was released Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:52:19 -0800
> 
> The patch seems fairly benign (from the release email):
> Here is a patch to add duration logging for operations that appears in the
> standard result messages of statslog.  It's a reasonably small change with
> negligible performance implications except under pathological benchmarking
> conditions.  It does change the quasi-machine-parsable statslog format,
> however, so it might not be appropriate for general 2.4 release.
> 
> The 7b8 package in xenial has an ITS#8054 patch but its origin is unknown to
> me.  I believe that it would be safe to replace the 7b9 package with the 7b8
> package from xenial and that can be done like this after performing the
> upgrade:
> 
> apt install zimbra-lmdb=2.4.44-1zimbra8.7b8.16.04 \
>    zimbra-openldap-lib:amd64=2.4.44-1zimbra8.7b8.16.04 \
>    zimbra-openldap-server=2.4.44-1zimbra8.7b8.16.0
> 
> However, so that our installations are all running the same software, I'm going
> to attempt to rebuild the xenial packages where I find that they are out of
> date with respect to the trusty packages.
> 
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