[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-sysadm] setup package not installed until quite late on...

Mon Apr 1 15:25:17 CEST 2013

The setup package contains /etc/group and friends, but when installing a
+chroot, it is not installed until after some packages which require the
+default groups it defines (e.g. sysvinit-legacy-tools requires the tty
+group yet it is installed before setup.
+
+
+Now here comes the tricky part... As part of the very first transaction
+which includes filesystem and glibc, dash-static is pulled in.
+
+dash-static requires the "mail" group defined by setup package.
+
+So really glibc requires dash-static which requires setup which requires
+glibc and shadow-utils and run-parts...
+
+Do we really want to add this loop?
+
+I'd suggest we should rejig setup to not have a hard require on glibc,
+shadow-utils and run-parts but still run it's current scripts if the
+needed binaries/tools are installed (i.e. on package upgrade) and then
+rejig dash-static to Require(pre): setup. This should ensure things are
+installed properly (I think - although not sure how this will affect the
+initial transaction split...)
+
+Any other/better thoughts?
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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