> Summary for the Debian-med group: > Someone reported a problem installing gnumed-server on Ubuntu. Before you > say > this is Debian and not Ubuntu let me tell you that I believe it affects > Debian > as well. The error that is encountered by the Ubuntu user is > > >> chgrp: invalid group: 'gnumed' > >> dpkg: error processing gnumed-server (--configure): > >> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > status > > It does not seem to happen when a user installs gnumed-client prior to > gnumed- > server. That made me thinking. > > Recently the package gnumed-server droped the dependency gnumed-common. > The > package gnumed-client still has this dependency. > > addgroup gnumed seems to solve the problem so I was thinking the > gnumed-client > does something gnumed-server does not. Looking at the postinst script it > seems > there is some magic with regards to groups going on. > > So my guess is that since gnumed-common was droped as a dependency this is > not > done for the server anymore.
This analysis is correct. However, since GNUmed itself doesn't need/use the system group "gnumed" everything should still work as expected. I have just recently been discussing the purpose of this with Andreas but haven't really understood why it is wanted to be kept (at the moment, I do see potential uses for it). Karsten -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
