Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-29 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
in it's expectations while installing. adduser is employed somewhere within for obvious reasons. Thank you, John Hendrickson Ian Jackson wrote: Wookey writes (Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common): I don't know if there is a better way in this particular case but I do know

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Wookey writes (Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common): 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

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-15 Thread Serge Hallyn
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

adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Serge Hallyn
Hi, qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the new rules file as soon as it sees it, sees that group kvm doesn't exist, and ignores that part of the rule (until reboot, udev restart, or the rule is

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:58:24PM -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote: qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the new rules file as soon as it sees it, sees that group kvm doesn't exist, and ignores that

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com writes: qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the new rules file as soon as it sees it, sees that group kvm doesn't exist, and ignores that part of the

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.03.2013 22:15, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com writes: qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the new rules file as soon as it sees it, sees that group

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com, 2013-03-14, 14:58: qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the new rules file as soon as it sees it, sees that group kvm doesn't exist, and ignores that

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Wookey
+++ 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

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): On 14.03.2013 22:15, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com writes: qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the new

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.03.2013 22:30, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): On 14.03.2013 22:15, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com writes: qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ansgar Burchardt: Couldn't postint tell udev explicitly to reload rules after the kvm group was added? udev does not support this: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-January/177046.html (The discussion extends into February 2013.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:59:42PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 14.03.2013 22:30, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): On 14.03.2013 22:15, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com writes: qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:28:23PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com, 2013-03-14, 14:58: qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the new rules file as soon as it sees