tags 385495 + patch
thanks

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.14-1

Hello!

I came across this bug after having found #389243 [1], which is a
duplicate of this one (and thus I merged them).

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:27:19 +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> The netdev group is created by the dhcdbd package.  How about having
> avahi-daemon depend on dhcdbd ?

Please don't do this, this is a bug against Policy Policy ยง9.2.2, as I
already explained at [2].

The attached patch derives from the dhcdbd.postinst:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- avahi-daemon.postinst       2006-10-10 23:28:51.000000000 +0200
+++ avahi-daemon.postinst_gismo 2006-10-10 23:32:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@
         usermod -d /var/run/avahi-daemon avahi
     fi
 
+    # create the netdev group used by dbus
+    if ! getent group netdev > /dev/null; then
+        addgroup --quiet --system netdev
+    fi
+
     # Ask the bus to reload the config file
     if [ -x "/etc/init.d/dbus" ]; then
       invoke-rc.d dbus force-reload || true
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389243
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389243;msg=25

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