certbot lost certificates , and registration data

[Matthew Seaman]

On 11/12/2018 10:57, Carmel NY wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:14:23 +0000, Matthew Seaman stated:
> 
>> On 10/12/2018 20:46, Carmel NY wrote:
>>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:56:22 +0000, Matthew Seaman stated:
>>>    
>>>> This was due to an upstream change moving where various paths are
>>>> defined to a different file, and so making the port's attempt to modify
>>>> the settings in the original file pretty futile.  I'll be working on a
>>>> fix later tonight.
>>>
>>> I am not sure if all of the py*-certbots are maintained by the same person;
>>> but shouldn't they have caught this problem before releasing it? They must
>>> have tested it, right?
>>>    
>>
>> They're mostly maintained by python at FreeBSD.org which is a group of
>> people (See towards the end of https://wiki.freebsd.org/Python).
>>
>> Yes, ideally this mistake would have been caught before the port was
>> updated.  It's a slightly tricky thing though -- test building would
>> have shown everything was fine.  It's only when anyone tried to *run*
>> certbot that the problems become apparent, and no-one did that before
>> committing the upgrade.  For routine updates patch-level updates like
>> this one, 99% of the time just doing build tests is sufficient.  This
>> unluckily happened to be one of the 1%.
>>
>> If anyone is interested in testing it, I've created a patch which can be
>> downloaded from https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233909
>>
>> 	Cheers,
>>
>> 	Matthew
> 
> I tried the patch, and it appears to be working. I'm using py36-certbot with
> the apache option if that makes any difference.
> 

Thanks for testing.  Just waiting on approval from python at .

	Cheers,

	Matthew