Packages adding groups in %pre/post

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Dec 23 15:30:21 UTC 2008


Panu Matilainen (pmatilai at laiskiainen.org) said: 
> And yes there are nasty loops:
> http://laiskiainen.org/tmp/fedora-rawhide-231208-loops.txt
> For a reproducer try:
> yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo=rawhide --installroot=<somewhere> install sed"
>
> This is so not going to work:
> [pmatilai at localhost badorder]$ rpm -qp --scripts  
> setup-2.7.5-3.fc11.noarch.rpm
> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> if [ `grep -c video /etc/group` -eq 0 ] ; then
>   groupadd -g 39 video
> fi
> if [ `grep -c audio /etc/group` -eq 0 ] ; then
>   groupadd -g 63 audio
> fi
>
> [pmatilai at localhost badorder]$ rpm -qp --requires setup-2.7.5-3.fc11.noarch.rpm |grep -v rpmlib
> /bin/sh
> config(setup) = 2.7.5-3.fc11
> grep

Bug 477769 filed.

Bill




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