Alex,
There are some initial install/use problems/mis-understandings with the new
passwd stuff.
When I updated, everything failed because it could not find
/sw/etc/passwd.conf. It appears it was passwd-core that was looking for it to
write into couldn't find it.
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-passwd-core-20130103-1
(Reading database ... 276012 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fink-buildlock-passwd-core-20130103-1 ...
Reading buildlock packages...
All buildlocks accounted for.
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/passwd-avahi_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/passwd-core_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/passwd-games_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/passwd-messagebus_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb
(Reading database ... 276011 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace passwd-avahi 20100305-5 (using
.../passwd-avahi_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement passwd-avahi ...
Preparing to replace passwd-core 20100305-5 (using
.../passwd-core_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement passwd-core ...
Preparing to replace passwd-games 20100305-5 (using
.../passwd-games_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement passwd-games ...
Preparing to replace passwd-messagebus 20100305-5 (using
.../passwd-messagebus_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement passwd-messagebus ...
Setting up passwd-core (20130103-1) ...
We recommend allocating UIDs and GIDs automatically,
unless you have specific requirements for UIDs and GIDs.
Set UIDs/GIDs automatically? [Y/n] n
OK. You will be prompted to enter ID numbers for each passwd-* user.
cp: /sw/share/passwd-core/passwd.conf: No such file or directory
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing passwd-core (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of passwd-games:
passwd-games depends on passwd-core (>= 20130103-1); however:
Package passwd-core is not configured yet.
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing passwd-games (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of passwd-messagebus:
passwd-messagebus depends on passwd-core (>= 20130103-1); however:
Package passwd-core is not configured yet.
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing passwd-messagebus (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of passwd-avahi:
passwd-avahi depends on passwd-core (>= 20130103-1); however:
Package passwd-core is not configured yet.
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing passwd-avahi (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
passwd-core
passwd-games
passwd-messagebus
passwd-avahi
### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
I found touching the file initially to create it, then installing passwd-core
seems to have done the job. However.....
I wanted to pick my UIDs/GIDs since I need all my systems to have the same
mapping to user/group name, so I picked 'n' when asked the question and that
leads to the following:
The following package will be installed or updated:
passwd-core
Reading buildlock packages...
All buildlocks accounted for.
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/passwd-core_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb
(Reading database ... 276018 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace passwd-core 20130103-1 (using
.../passwd-core_20130103-1_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement passwd-core ...
Setting up passwd-core (20130103-1) ...
We recommend allocating UIDs and GIDs automatically,
unless you have specific requirements for UIDs and GIDs.
Set UIDs/GIDs automatically? [Y/n] n
OK. You will be prompted to enter ID numbers for each passwd-* user.
[HexaMacPro:~] merle%
Not what I was expecting since it said it was going to prompt. That message
should be updated to indicate that each individual passwd-* package (but no
passwd-core) will prompt.
So, I started with passwd-messagebus and that worked fine as it already
existed. However, where does fink keep that information? With the old system,
it was possible to just rerun the post-install script to create the identical
UID/GID map to username/groupname on a different clean system. Is that still
possible? Or do we now have to do all this hand-holding every single time we
bring in a new or rebuild a system?
Thanks! Just trying to understand what extra work is now on the user verses
fink keeping track of it.
Merle
On Jan 8, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 1/3/13 8:23 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> On 1/3/13 6:20 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>> On 1/3/13 6:17 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>> https://raw.github.com/akhansen/Fink-experimental/master/passwd/passwd-core.info
>>>>
>>>> Feedback is appreciated.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oops, I should have noted that this has only been tested for 10.7/10.8/
>>>
>>
>> I did some testing on 10.6. The upgrade path is kind of involved--we'd
>> need to update (as in increase revision) all of the packages with
>> dependencies on passwd* to have versioned dependencies on the relevant
>> passwd-* splitoffs.
>>
>
> I went ahead and did this:
>
> https://github.com/akhansen/Fink-experimental/tree/10.4/passwd
>
> Basically the upgrade path is:
>
> New Revision of <package> brings in updated version of passwd-<package>,
> which brings passwd-core, which Replaces the old passwd (but doesn't
> Conflict with it) and overwrites the "update-passwd" script with the new
> format. The new passwd-<package> contains the data which the new
> "update-passwd" needs to create users. However, it also is set up to
> make no user database changes if the user/group already exists, and
> passwd-<package> will be installed.
>
> I also updated the dovecot package (not to a new version): on 10.6 and
> later there's a '_dovecot' user, and so I figured that the dovecot
> package should use that, and passwd-dovecot becomes a dummy placeholder.
> On 10.5 there's no such user, and so 10.5 needs to retain a real
> passwd-dovecot package.
>
> https://github.com/akhansen/Fink-experimental/tree/10.7/passwd contains
> the 10.7|10.8 package description.
>
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
>
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