Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>:
Bug#7792; Package base-passwd.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgPhilippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Acknowledgement sent to Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@icenet.fi>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>.   Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@icenet.fi>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 3 Mar 1997 22:37:42 +0000 Received: (qmail 21151 invoked from network); 3 Mar 1997 22:37:39 -0000 Received: from pinta.kolumbus.fi (root@193.229.0.40) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 3 Mar 1997 22:37:38 -0000 Received: from icebox.icenet.fi (root@[193.229.129.10]) by pinta.kolumbus.fi (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA14857 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 00:29:32 +0200 (EET) Received: from pongo by icebox.icenet.fi (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id AAA05756; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 00:30:15 +0200 Sender: fabrizio@icebox Message-ID: <331AF5AC.781271FC@icenet.fi> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 18:00:44 +0200 From: Fabrizio Polacco X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Debian-bugs Subject: smartlist installation problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Package: smartlist Version: 3.10-8 Package: smail Version: 3.2-1 Package: base-passwd Version: 1.2.0-3 [sorry if this is already reported, I'm not online so I can't check, and I don't see nothing on the last "unanswered problems report"] installing manually smartlist on a old 1.1 system I've got this problem: $ sudo dpkg -i /debian/rex/binary-i386/base/base-passwd_1.2.0-3.deb \ /debian/rex-fixed/binary-i386/mail/smartlist_3.10-8.deb Selecting previously deselected package base-passwd. (Reading database ... 17830 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking base-passwd (from .../base/base-passwd_1.2.0-3.deb) ... Replacing files in old package base ... Preparing to replace smartlist 3.10-8 (using .../mail/smartlist_3.10-8.deb) ... Unpacking replacement smartlist ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/smartlist.postrm: newaliases: command not found >>-----------------------------------xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx---- Setting up base-passwd (1.2.0-3) ... Configuration file `/etc/passwd' ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version Z : background this process to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** passwd (Y/I/N/O/Z) [default=N] ? n Configuration file `/etc/group' ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version Z : background this process to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** group (Y/I/N/O/Z) [default=N] ? n Setting up smartlist (3.10-8) ... SmartList Installation --------------------- Do you want a mailing list "announce" to be created ? (Y/n) n /var/lib/dpkg/info/smartlist.postinst: newaliases: command not found >>-------------------------------------xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--- chown: root.list: invalid group >>-----xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx newaliases is in sendmail and I have smail 3.2-1 a) smartlist should depend on sendmail (aarghh) b) smartlist.postinst should test for the command c) smail should provide a command named newaliases also the chown failed because I didn't let base-passwd overwrite my /etc/passwd and /etc/group (who would?) a) base-passwd package should use standard utility (adduser? useradd?) to update the list of predefined users/groups. b) smartlist.postinst should look for the user/group in /etc files another one (little): $ grep list /etc/passwd* /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist:list:*:38:38:smarlist:/var:/bin/sh >>-------------------------------------t---------------- missing "t" in smar(t)list in gcos field. Cheers, Fabrizio -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | fpolacco@icenet.fi fpolacco@debian.org - Using Debian GNU/Linux ! | | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E | > Dog meat? Don't worry, Gwendolen, I'm on my way! [Wallace] | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+