tag 612426 + moreinfo quit On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:35:52 +0100 (CET) Santiago Vila <[email protected]> wrote:
> > base-files uses chmod in the postinst script which needs /etc/passwd > > and /etc/group to be present. those file are created by the > > base-passwd package and hence base-files should depend on it. > > > > i found this bug when running multistrap which uses apt and hence > > relies on the package dependencies to be correct to determine > > configuration order of packages. This doesn't normally happen with multistrap. (It would have been found a long time ago). The following NEW packages will be installed: base-files base-passwd ... Using directory /tmp/multistrap/ for unpacking operations I: Extracting base-files_6.0_i386.deb... -> Processing conffiles for base-files I: Extracting base-passwd_3.5.22_i386.deb... ... Setting up base-passwd (3.5.22) ... .... Setting up base-files (6.0) ... ... i.e. A typical run would configure base-passwd first and base-files a bit later. As with all multistrap bugs, please attach your complete multistrap config file and, if possible, the output log from multistrap. > However, if we do this for every package which depends on another > essential package, this would result in lots of circular dependencies, > which are also highly discouraged, so I really believe this is a > problem that should be solved by multistrap, hence the reassign. If it was reproducible, then yes. Currently, multistrap doesn't have this problem in my own tests. (It is dpkg which is being asked to do the configuration.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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