etckeeper

etckeeper cron spam => please pass --quiet to `bzr commit`

Bug #1986739 reported by Haw Loeung on 2022-08-16

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
etckeeper	New	Undecided	Unassigned
etckeeper (Debian)	New	Unknown	debbugs #1018874
etckeeper (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

Using bzr/brz, we're seeing daily autocommit cron spam, e.g.

Can the autocommit hook for bzr/brz use switches and such to make it more silent / quiet?

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Junien Fridrick (axino) wrote on 2022-08-17:

I wouldn't call that spam, it can be useful. So I guess if we want to make it silent, it should be done via a config file like /etc/default/etckeeper ?

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Paride Legovini (paride) wrote on 2022-08-23:

I didn't try it, but I had a look at the code and the desired behavior may be achievable by setting

BZR_COMMIT_OPTIONS="--quiet"

in /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf. See how it's used in /etc/etckeeper/commit.d/50vcs-commit. Could you please try it out and let us know if it works? I'm marking this bug report as Incomplete for now. Thanks!

Changed in etckeeper (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Haw Loeung (hloeung) wrote on 2022-08-24:

With --quiet as Paride suggested works:

| BZR_COMMIT_OPTIONS="--quiet"

| ubuntu@machine-0:/etc$ sudo vi /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf
| ubuntu@machine-0:/etc$ sudo touch testing-etckeeper2
| ubuntu@machine-0:/etc$ sudo etckeeper commit "daily autocommit" >/dev/null
| ubuntu@machine-0:/etc$

Could this be made the default? This makes it consistent with git:

| ubuntu@juju-87625f-hloeung-120:/etc$ sudo touch testing-etckeeper
| ubuntu@juju-87625f-hloeung-120:/etc$ sudo etckeeper commit "daily autocommit" >/dev/null
| ubuntu@juju-87625f-hloeung-120:/etc$ sudo git status
| On branch master
| nothing to commit, working tree clean
| ubuntu@juju-87625f-hloeung-120:/etc$

As in, etckeeper with git doesn't output anything on daily autocommit. With bzr, it currently does.

Haw Loeung (hloeung) on 2022-08-24

Changed in etckeeper (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

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Paride Legovini (paride) wrote on 2022-08-25:

Glad to hear it worked. Given that this bug is minor and that etckeeper is currently a sync from Debian, I think this should be fixed in Debian or even better upstream. If I'm not mistaken the main upstream dev is a Debian Developer which also did several uploads of the package, even if he's not listed as an Uploader in d/control, see:

https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/etckeeper.git/log/
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/e/etckeeper/etckeeper_1.18.17-1_changelog

so maybe refiling this bug against the Debian package will count as reporting upstream (I couldn't find a more proper issue tracker). Would you mind doing so? Thanks!

Changed in etckeeper (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
summary:	- etckeeper cron spam + etckeeper cron spam => please pass --quiet to `bzr commit`