lirc overwrote my lircd.conf

[Martin Emrich]

Binary package hint: lirc

After upgrading to 0.8.2-0ubuntu3, my remote stopped working. Looking into /etc/lirc/lircd.conf, I saw that it is >60k big, and contains many contributed config sets for my remote (ATI X10 USB). lircd.conf.dpkg-old contains one other contributed config, but my original lircd.conf (containing my X10 config along with some other self-defined configs for several IR remotes) is gone for good... If I just had a backup :(

Ciao

Martin

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

The behavior of the postinst script will simple rename your existing config to /etc/lirc/lircd.dpkg-old. Your old configuration should be present there, unless you reconfigured lirc multiple times to choose different remotes.
Here is the snippet of what the postinst script does:
                # we don't restore the file unless the user is (re)configuring
                elif $CONFIG_CHANGED \
                        && [ -f "/usr/share/lirc/remotes/$RET" ];then
                        if [ -f "/etc/lirc/lircd.conf" ]; then
                                mv /etc/lirc/lircd.conf /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.dpkg-old
                        fi
                        cp /usr/share/lirc/remotes/$RET \
                                /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
                fi

Nonetheless, I do see that this will be confusing to some people who are upgrading lirc and suddenly get a pretty option to choose a remote. I'm attaching a debdiff that will show a more informative message

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Ok. I don't know if the packaging guidelines allow this, but maybe it should abort if there ist already a lircd.conf.dpkg-old. In the meantime, I recreated my lircd.conf with irrecord, and my remote works again like a charm. By the way: in the .debdiff file, there seems to be a typo, theres "lirc.conf-dpkg-old" (mind the dash instead of the dot) everywhere.

Ciao

Martin

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

I am uploading a newer debdiff to cover the typo in the template, as well as to solve another open lirc bug, 129689

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

lirc (0.8.2-0ubuntu4) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Clarify the intentions of choosing a remote (LP: #129038)
  * Add 17_devinput.dpatch to show correct DEVICE
    in doc/lirc.hwdb. (LP: #129689)
  * Write out REMOTE="" to lircd.conf as well to allow
    external apps to parse this information.

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:39:17 -0500

[dgatwood (dgatwood)]

This bug seems to have regressed to being broken again in 10.04.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

dgatwood: Perhaps it would be better to file a new bug with full details. Just "broken" on its own doesn't offer much to go on, and a new report would be better anyway in case it turns out not to be caused by the same thing as the original bug.