Re: [PATCH] base-passwd: Fix the broken preinst/postinstall

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 14:37 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 14 nov. 2011, om 13:52 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 12:49 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> >> The preinst accesses file which may not yet have been unpacked.
> >> The postinst is too late for the creation of these files
> >> for at least the opkg backend.
> >> 
> >> This patch therefore encodes the file contents into the preinst,
> >> resolving the various issues once and for all.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > If you're going to do that (which does look reasonable) then you might
> > as well stop the package from shipping passwd.master and group.master at
> > all.  I don't think anything else uses those files so they're just
> > wasting space at the moment.
> 
> IIRC 'update-passwd' will use those. That's not a criticism on Phils
> suggestion, I like it very much.

I've posted a second patch which moves these pieces into a separate
package and actually uses update-passwd.

Cheers,

Richard