Quoting Wookey (woo...@wookware.org): > +++ Serge Hallyn [2013-03-14 14:58 -0500]: > > Hi, > > > > > To fix this the kvm group should be created during preinst before the > > udev rules file is unpacked. This requires adding adduser to the > > Pre-Depends. vorlon warned me that any new pre-depends should be > > discussed here first, so I'm emailing to ask - is this ok? Is there > > a better way? > > I don't know if there is a better way in this particular case but I do > know that adding users in preinsts does cause problems. Preinsts that > do anything important (which is not dealing with upgrades from > previous packages) cause issues for cross-arch rootfs generation, > where the system has to be booted before preinsts can be run. Mysql, > for example, creates its user in the preinst and this breaks if you > create a foreign-arch rootfs with multistrap containing mysql. I find > it hard to imagine why this necessary, but I assume someone had a good > reason. > > Making sure that the user/group is _also_ created in the postinst if > it's not already been done would make everything work nicely from my > POV. Avoiding doing such things in preinsts at all is good if possible. .
Thanks, I'll make sure to keep it there as well. It's also been pointed out to me that actually qemu-kvm, which is being replaced by qemu, already had adduser in Pre-Depends. So actually this isn't a new case, and perhaps this thread was unnecessary :) (But then I wouldn't have thought about this case) thanks, -serge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130315132754.GA3782@sergelap
