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Id: 2851
Status: resolved
Priority: 4/0
Queue: vdt-internal
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Owner: Scot Kronenfeld
Requestors: Alain Roy
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Created: Wed Aug 01 10:50:19 2007
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Last Contact: Wed Aug 01 11:25:39 2007
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Closed: Mon Aug 20 13:36:37 2007
Updated: Mon Aug 20 13:36:37 2007 by roy
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# Wed Aug 01 10:50:19 2007 roy - Ticket created [Reply] 
Subject: Change vdt-update-certs to backup certificates
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We should backup the old certificates in vdt-update-certs, so if there
is a total failure, people can recover.

I had some code to do a backup, but it was sucky because it wasn't part
of the filelist and Scot rightfully commented it out.

We should think about the right way to do the backup. A few ideas:
- Should we backup in in the same base directory, so the backup is
easy to find?
If so, we need to adjust the package file list.
- Should we do backups like vdt-untar does them? I'm not sure of the
implications of that.
- We should garbage collect old backups.
# Wed Aug 01 11:25:38 2007 kronenfe - Correspondence added [Reply] 
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> I had some code to do a backup, but it was sucky because it wasn't part
> of the filelist and Scot rightfully commented it out.

I commented out backups, but the old certificates don't get deleted. So
if the installation fails, people will still have some (old)
certificates to use. But this might be confusing to have multiple
directories of certificates at the top level.

Changing the filelist is not that hard. What about this:
- Install new certificates, say certificates-XX-X
- Move existing certificates from certificates-YY-Y to
certificates-YY-Y.old, and change the filelist accordingly
- Delete any previous certificates-*.old folders, and update the
filelist accordingly
# Wed Aug 01 11:25:39 2007 RT_System - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
# Thu Aug 02 10:06:18 2007 kronenfe - Taken
# Mon Aug 06 11:48:39 2007 kronenfe - Subject changed from 'Change vdt-update-certs to backup certificates' to 'vdt-update-certs changes (backups, version info, and more)'
# Mon Aug 20 13:36:37 2007 roy - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'