[Mageia-dev] beta 4 installer notes

Thu Apr 11 08:10:25 CEST 2013

On 10 April 2013 10:19, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>
+>
+> > 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
+
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/basesystem/current/SPECS/basesystem.spec?view=markup#l71
+%posttrans minimal
+pwconv 2>/dev/null >/dev/null || :
+grpconv 2>/dev/null >/dev/null || :
+
+this means /etc/shadow is created later, once basesystem-minimal
+has been installed
+
+> > 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
+
+Also another way to fix it would be to kill that %posttrans and to just
+run those commands in filesystem's %build
+On upgrade, anyway /etc/shadow already exists for a decade
+
+BTW this is what Fedora does (but they do it in setup instead):
+http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/setup.git/plain/setup.spec
+