missing locking / changetrack does only track with a delay of one day and one hour

[Peter Jakobi]

issue: changetrack currently is _not_ integrated into package installation. Effectively,
this means that new config files will be added at worst 25 hours late (cron.daily/changetrack).
Possibly after the user already changed some config files.

solution: call changetrack with the list of newly added config files as defined
by the packages, and append that list the list of all packages.

a similar situation exists, when the user edits /etc/changetrack.cfg.

work around:

manually invoke cron.daily/changetrack to update the config file list,
then cron.hourly/changetrack to update RCS.

however this shows a second issue:

issue: changetrack and scripts messing with the filelists require locking to avoid data corruption.
This certainly is the case for the filelist itself. And I'm quite a bit sceptical concerning RCS in
face of multiple concurrent attempts at the same file.

solution: add locking, for now at least to the cronjobs, in the following example using
lockfile from the procmail package:
   f=/var/lib/changetrack/.locked; lockfile -s10 -l600 $f
   <original content of cron.*/changetrack>
   rc=$?;rm $f;exit $rc

Changetrack would also profit from adding locking internally, but even than, we'd need still
to use locks in the daily script.

thanx,
Peter

[Peter Jakobi (jakobi)]

Jaunty

changetrack 4.3-3

LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch