Control: reassign -1 src:redis 2:2.8.7-1 On Du, 09 mar 14, 20:11:41, Ed Swierk wrote: > Source: redis-server > Version: 2:2.8.7-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I'm installing redis-server into a root filesystem using multistrap. The > host has a different architecture, so multistrap skips all scripts during > the install. Then when I run dpkg --configure -a, the postinst script > tries to chown redis /var/lib/redis, which fails because the redis user > that would have been created by preinst doesn't exist. > > I haven't found an official policy on how packages are supposed to create a > user during install, but all the instances I found (in openssh-server, > racoon, trousers) did so in postinst rather than preinst. This unofficial > wiki document also recommends postinst: > https://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts . Since this > convention happens to benefit multistrap users, I'd like to see > redis-server adopt it. > > (See bug 627068 for further discussion about skipping preinst during > foreign installs.) > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.11.0-17-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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