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   <H1>[Mageia-sysadm] setup package not installed until quite late on...</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>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 &quot;mail&quot; 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

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