Hello On 2006-11-14 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:17:31PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > This one is non-trvial to reproduce. You can see it with: > > > in a chroot: > > debfoster -o MaxPriority=required -f -n apt debfoster > > apt-get install quagga > > > and then you get: > > Selecting previously deselected package quagga. > > Unpacking quagga (from .../quagga_0.99.5-3_i386.deb) ... > > addgroup: `/etc/adduser.conf' does not exist. Using defaults. > > addgroup: `/etc/adduser.conf' does not exist. Using defaults. > > adduser: `/etc/adduser.conf' does not exist. Using defaults. > > Password: > > Surely this is a bug in passwd (providing the chfn command) or in the test > environment, though? libpam-runtime is fully installed in this case; passwd > is unpacked but not configured, which should be sufficient to get a proper > PAM config.... > > Ah, no; passwd is unpacked but not configured, which means /etc/pam.d/chfn > is still at /etc/pam.d/chfn.dpkg-new. So this is all just a normal symptom > of the root bug, calling adduser in the preinst without a pre-dependency.
Thanks for the analysis, Steve! I'll add a pre-dependency to adduser to the quagga package (and check the mysql-server-5.0 one for this, too). bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
