When upgrading from Etch to Lenny, the rsync package returns this error:

Setting up rsync (3.0.3-2) ...
Restarting rsync daemon: rsyncrsync daemon not running, attempting to start. (warning).
missing or empty config file /etc/rsyncd.conf failed!
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript rsync, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing rsync (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 rsync
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I suggest this modification in postinst script:

--- rsync.postinst.bak  2008-07-25 07:07:03.000000000 -0300
+++ rsync.postinst      2009-02-17 12:04:13.000000000 -0300
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 fi

-if [ -x /etc/init.d/rsync ]; then
+if [ -x /etc/init.d/rsync -a -f /etc/rsyncd.conf ]; then
         update-rc.d rsync defaults >/dev/null
         if [ -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ]; then
                 invoke-rc.d rsync restart

Regards,

Eriberto - Brazil

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii  base-files                    5          Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libacl1                       2.2.47-2   Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpopt0                      1.14-4     lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

rsync recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii  openssh-client                1:5.1p1-5  secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  openssh-server                1:5.1p1-5  secure shell server, an rshd repla

-- no debconf information

Paul Slootman

I understand it. But I think the upgrade can be made more
transparently for users. My rsync daemon used to work fine in Etch
without a config file. But I don't know if my solution was good. What
you think about this?

Thanks for your quick reply.

Regards,

Eriberto - Brazil

2009/2/17 Paul Slootman <p...@wurtel.net>: