270991 - Interim "currently upgrading from CVS" page isn't working?

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: bugzilla.org, defect)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Landfill is supposedly rigged with an interim page which is placed in front of
the Bugzilla installs which auto-update from CVS while they are being updated
that states the upgrade is in progress and please hit reload after a few seconds
to continue.  Email I just received on [e-mail] leads me to
believe that the upgrade script is currently failing to put that interim page up
for some reason.  (User mailed to report the "template failed twice" error,
received right on the hour, which is the hallmark of hitting the system while
checksetup.pl is rebuilding the templates)

The interim page is placed by swapping out the .htaccess file with one
containing a catch-all rewrite rule that points at the "now updating" page, then
restoring the original .htaccess file once the update is complete.  Does
checksetup.pl replace the .htaccess if it doesn't contain the right things on
cvs tip now?  If so, that would explain the behavior.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Just to have this available in case it's useful to anyone who wants to help
troubleshoot, the existing updater script which is called from cron does this:

#!/bin/sh
cd $1
cp -p .htaccess .htaccess.normal
cp -p /etc/bugzilla/htaccess.updating .htaccess
cvs -q -d :pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot up -dPC -r$2 >
/dev/null
./checksetup.pl /etc/bugzilla/no-changes
mv .htaccess.normal .htaccess

cron passes in the full path to the Bugzilla install and the CVS Tag to update
to on the command line.  The "no-changes" file just contains a "1;", it's
basically just there to trick checksetup.pl into running in silent mode.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Whatever happened seems to have resolved itself.  It's working just fine now, I
just hit it a few minutes ago. :)