F17 yum/rpm not running groupadd in %pre scripts

[Rex Dieter]

Chuck Anderson wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:33:36PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> 
>> > I ran into a comedy of errors today after I did a new F17 installation
>> > yesterday.  Here are a couple:
>> > 
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848148
>> > Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package wireshark-1.6.9-1.fc17.x86_64
>> > 
>> > (and why does yum still let the transaction succeed, creating problems
>> > in the RPMDB, broken dependencies?)
> 
> Still need to file a bug on yum for this one.  yum should have failed
> the transaction rather than allow a package to be installed with
> missing deps.

I don't think that would be worthwhile.  I believe there's no sane way to 
back out of the transaction at that point (please do correct me if I'm 
wrong).

-- rex