4.2 upgrade issues

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cantor, Scott via users
> Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 12:00 PM
> 
> On 5/4/22, 11:37 AM, "users on behalf of Duncan Brannen via users" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on
> behalf of users at shibboleth.net> wrote:
> 
> >                 Just an FYI for anyone keeping backup configs in the conf directory.  4.2 seems to
> recursively search
> > /opt/shibboleth/conf for configs and include them vs 4.1.7 which only searches certain folders?

Food for thought, we use git to version our installs. This gives us visibility to any changes and the ability to roll back. Our .gitignore excludes /logs/*.{log,tmp,gz}

> 
> It was always meant to be recursive and absolutely was because it was finding the attribute/custom
> folder's rule files (which was bad) and authn.properties (which it needed to). So that wasn't a
> change. There were changes made to get it to stop including certain files, and prevent it from
> including idp.properties twice in some cases and causing spurious warnings due to the new duplicate
> detection feature.
> 
> >  I’d some copies of old config files in conf/backup which are now being picked up by the install /
> upgrade
> > process and included, overwriting the old ones causing strange issues.
> 
> That would absolutely have been found before. But what it *does* when there are overlaps has always
> been impossible to control, which is why it now logs that (usually to the container since that's
> early).

-Jason 

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