[csw-maintainers] apache2 update issue

[Ben Walton]

Hi All,

I'm soliciting a recommendation for how to handle a bug with the old
apache removal process.

If you install CSWapache2, you get CSWapache2, CSWapache2c,
CSWapache2rt and CSWap2prefork.  At this point, due to use of installf
in the postinstall of CSWap2prefork, CSWap2prefork owns
/opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd.  If you now install CSWap2worker to get
the httpd.worker mpm, You'll have CSWap2worker as the owner of
sbin/httpd (postinstall script again), while the httpd.prefork binary
lives at sbin/httpd.prefork and sbin/httpd.worker-save.

Upon removal, CSWap2worker removes sbin/httpd since it is the
registered owner,  It then moves sbin/httpd.worker-save back to
sbin/httpd to clean up after itself.

Now, if you remove the rest of the apache2 stack, you get sbin/httpd
left behind as it has no owner.

When the new packages come along, alternatives balks at creating the
symlinks required due to an existing binary...this is good, but leaves
the wrong httpd in place.

I suspect that the only good solution is a preinstall script for the
new CSWapache2 that will do:

HTTPD=$PKG_INSTALL_ROOT/opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd
PKG_INSTALL_ROOT=
[ -x "$HTTPD" ] && rm -f "$HTTPD"

Anyone got a more creative idea for handling this?

Thanks
-Ben
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Ben Walton
Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
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