From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>,
pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu-server] debian: add maintscript to remove unused file
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:23:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <581c5a4a-01a0-43c1-bc2b-7123923fe335@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260320135120.372074-1-m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
Am 20.03.26 um 2:51 PM schrieb Maximiliano Sandoval:
> The conffile was moved to LIDBIR in in 4093c3f4a but there was no
> associated cleanup.
>
> If one starts from a version of Proxmox VE older than 9, then the the
> configuration would be at /etc. If the machine is then updated to
> version 9, then both versions will be present, with the version at /etc
> having a higher priority as per modules-load.d(5). In such a case, any
> changes made in the packaged configuration will be ignored.
>
> The rm_config (see dpkg-maintscript-helper(1)) is used to remove the
> trailing config if it was not touched by the user. If the file was
> touched by the user then it is automatically moved and we move it back
> manually so that it continues to have higher preference.
>
> Suggested-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
The versions need to be adapted to match the next qemu-server version
bump. With that:
Reviewed-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
One more comment inline:
> ---
>
> Notes:
> Tested:
>
> 1. Created pve 8 VM using the 8.4 iso
> 2. Checked the version at /etc is present
> 3. Updated to pve 9
> 4. Checked that both versions are present
> 5. Updated the qemu-server package using this patch
> 6. Verified the file at /etc is not there
>
> During step 5. the following message can be seen:
>
> Removing obsolete conffile /etc/modules-load.d/qemu-server.conf ...
>
> If we edit the file before 5. then one would see
>
> Obsolete conffile /etc/modules-load.d/qemu-server.conf has been modified by you.
> Saving as /etc/modules-load.d/qemu-server.conf.dpkg-bak ...
> Moving qemu-server.conf.dpkg-bak back to qemu-server.conf
>
> and systemd-delta would still consider this as an override of the
> version at /usr/lib.
>
> Further reinstalls of the qemu-server package will leave alone this
> version of /etc/modules-load.d/qemu-server.conf.
>
> Note that the version at /etc will only have a higher preference over
> the one at /usr/lib if it is named exactly the same, thus we move it
> back rather than renaming it to, e.g. qemu-server-old.conf, as this
> would result in the union of both modules being loaded by
> systemd-modules-load.service at boot.
>
> debian/postinst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> debian/qemu-server.maintscript | 1 +
For consistency with all the other scripts, it could also be just called
'maintscript' instead of 'qemu-server.maintscript'.
> 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 debian/postinst
> create mode 100644 debian/qemu-server.maintscript
>
> diff --git a/debian/postinst b/debian/postinst
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..aff4a27e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/debian/postinst
> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +set -e
> +
> +#DEBHELPER#
> +
> +case "$1" in
> + configure)
> +
> + if test -n "$2" && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" 'lt' '9.1.6'; then
> + if test -f /etc/modules-load.d/qemu-server.conf.dpkg-bak; then
> + printf "Moving qemu-server.conf.dpkg-bak back to qemu-server.conf\n"
> + mv /etc/modules-load.d/qemu-server.conf.dpkg-bak /etc/modules-load.d/qemu-server.conf
> + fi
> + fi
> +esac
> +
> +exit 0
> diff --git a/debian/qemu-server.maintscript b/debian/qemu-server.maintscript
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..c48d470f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/debian/qemu-server.maintscript
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +rm_conffile /etc/modules-load.d/qemu-server.conf 9.1.6~ qemu-server
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-16 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-20 13:51 [PATCH qemu-server] debian: add maintscript to remove unused file Maximiliano Sandoval
2026-07-16 12:23 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2026-07-16 13:02 ` superseded: " Maximiliano Sandoval
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