Hi! If there is a possibility to add something to /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group files on package install, why there is no possibility to create the udev rules when those package are installed? This should obviously solve the problem and I can't understand why it can be done so. The more detailed description: What is now: We have a /etc/group file which does contain only groups required only for those packages which were already installed. If we install new package which requires e.g. a group 'rdma', the entry for this group is created in /etc/group file. Meanwhile we have /etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules which contains entries with 'rdma' group always. So as Mike Castle (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412989#51) says, the 'rdma' group comes from 'libibverbs' package. If initially there were no references to 'rdma' group in 91-permissions.rules file, the 'libiverbs' package's triggers could add them when package installs.
The more common case if the group is required by a number of packages. In this case the triggers should check, if there are records in file and if there are, then they should do nothing. I am not very experienced in Debian package system. Had I miss something? -- Thanks, Alexander Betaev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
