[Mageia-dev] beta 4 installer notes

Wed Apr 10 07:03:44 CEST 2013

On 10 April 2013 06:58, Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net> wrote:
+>> > (5) a message,
+>> >     "script failed for mailman_2.1.15-3.mga3-x86-64:"
+>> >
+>> >     (there was a blank line underneath but no more text)
+>>
+>> the exact error should be in your /root/drakx/install.log (also included
+>> in your /root/drakx/report.bug.xz)
+>
+> it is, but the blank message doesn't seem very polished.
+
+we can just be notified by rpm there was an error in a callback.
+We don't have details at that stage.
+Those were spit by rpm itself in the log file.
+There's nothing we can do
+
+> [[
+> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.J7elL9: line 31: crontab: command not found
+> /usr/sbin/postconf: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6 name/address
+> support: Address family not supported by protocol
+> postalias: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6 name/address support:
+> Address family not supported by protocol
+> su: Insufficient credentials to access authentication data
+> su: Insufficient credentials to access authentication data
+> %post(mailman-2.1.15-3.mga3.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
+> mailman-2.1.15-3.mga3.x86_64
+> ]]
+
+This is due to moving 'filesystem' %post script in basesystem-minimal I think.
+Could be fixed by making mailman doing this:
+   Requires(post): basesystem-minimal
+
+Colin, could you grep for packages invoking su in their post script so that
+we can fix them all?
+