etckeeper (with git) deletes empty directories on apt-get upgrade

What VCS are you using (setting VCS in /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf)?

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Daniel Hahler <email address hidden> wrote:
> What VCS are you using (setting VCS in /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf)?

nothing changed, the default - git, I guess.

Please check this, since it is probably an issue with the implementation for this particular VCS, which removes empty directories.
I think the bug should get forwarded to upstream (Debian), since they/he probably know where to fix it it from the top of their/his head(s).

Sorry, but I can't due to time restrictions.
But I can give some more explanations:

With "nothing changed", I mean:
I am absolutely sure that I did not change any default.
I exactly entered the commands I wrote here and nothing else, starting
with a completely plain Ubuntu Desktop install from Live CD with no
actions taken after the install apart from the ones reported here.
Especially, I never ever in my whole life touched any etckeeper config
file on any system I ever used.

With "git, I guess", I mean:
Given the previous explanation, if etckeeper installs with git as
default, it is git. If something else is etckeeper's default, it is
this. But I assume and am 99,9% sure it is git.

This problem already took about a day for me to find everything I
reported until now, much more than I thought when originally reporting
this bug and other things start to press me - I might find some time
to check back next week or the week after.

Please remind me if you still think it's necessary.

I did not meant that you should forward the issue, but only stated that it should be done.

As documented, git cannot track empty directories and therefore this extra metadata should get stored in /etc/.etckeeper.
Please provide the output of
  sudo grep -E 'mkdir|mysql' /etc/.etckeeper
There it should be stored that /etc/mysql.d needs to get created.

You could also track the history of this meta file, e.g. by using "sudo git log /etc/.etckeeper" and find out, why /etc/mysql.d has been removed from it (or if it has ever been added).
There should be graphical browsers for Git, but I don't know any from the top of my head.

Fixed in 0.26

This bug was fixed in the package etckeeper - 0.28ubuntu1

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etckeeper (0.28ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    * etckeeper.conf: Default to bzr
  * debian/control: Default to bzr as well (LP: #321809)

etckeeper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * Support darcs. Thanks to Gian Piero Carrubba. Closes: #510032

etckeeper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use SUDO_USER as the committer if set. Closes: #498739
    (Thierry Carrez)
  * bzr: Avoid use of etckeeper pre-commit on Trees not on the
    filesystem. (Jelmer Vernooij)

etckeeper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add Japanese debconf translation. Closes: #512869
  * Prevent git from removing a directory when the last file in it
    has been removed, but the directory is left existing and empty,
    by touching a flag file before calling git rm. Closes: 513006

 -- Thierry Carrez <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:58:42 +0000