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

Mon Apr 1 22:56:40 CEST 2013

On 1 April 2013 22:19, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> actually it's the "filesystem" package that is bogus:
+>> drwxr-xr-x    2 root daemon   4096 Gen  11 21:34 /var/spool/lpd
+>> drwxrwxr-x    2 root mail     4096 Gen  11 21:34 /var/spool/mail
+>>
+>> you got bitten by the off by one issue due to %pretrans meaning rpm runs
+>> open_callback more than we though
+>>
+>> so forget about glibc's scriptlets
+>
+> Ha! So it is :)
+>
+> So should the plan be to make setup's scripts run via dash-static and
+> not use rpm-helper scripts and deal gracefully with non-existing
+> binaries etc.?
+>
+> Then filesystem can require setup and all will be well in the world
+> (other than the general draklive problem where groups are somehow not
+> honoured by rpm when installing in the chroot)
+
+Already fixed as part of bug #9326
+
+setup's scriptlets were archeological remanants of mdv2007.
+I've killed them for now.
+If needed, they can be restored either by spliting setup-basesystem
+(https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9326#c19)
+or by converting them to lua as suggested by you.
+