[Mageia-dev] beta 4 installer notes

Wed Apr 10 10:19:24 CEST 2013

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 10/04/13 06:03 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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.
+
+Out of completeness, why does this cause problems? Also I see no %post
+script in basesystem-minimal anyway so not sure how it could cause
+problems :D
+
+
+Do you maybe mean the pretrans stuff in filesystem package itself
+(written in lua)?
+
+Even still I'm not sure how this would affect paths as the symlinks
+should mean all binaries are available under the same paths as they were
+before.
+
+I can't rule it out of course, but I (so far) don't see how this could
+affect things.
+
+
+> Could be fixed by making mailman doing this:
+>    Requires(post): basesystem-minimal
+
+That should solve the crontab issue (so a grep for that should also be
+done I guess - although having now done that, it seems only mailman uses
+it :D).
+
+> Colin, could you grep for packages invoking su in their post script so that
+> we can fix them all?
+
+Not many:
+
+openbravo/current/SPECS/openbravo.spec
+bacula/current/SPECS/bacula.spec
+mailman/current/SPECS/mailman.spec
+mercurial-server/current/SPECS/mercurial-server.spec
+cyrus-imapd/current/SPECS/cyrus-imapd.spec
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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