[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#577965: Bug#577965: corosync fails to install when user ais already exists

[Richard B Winters]

Hello,

On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 17:00 -0700, Luke Crawford wrote:
> I'm trying to install corosync on a system that already has a user
> 'ais'  -  a user that I can't overwrite or otherwise get rid of.  
>  ...
> My current work-around is to go into
>  /var/lib/dpkg/info/corosync.postinst 
> 
> 
> and replacing all instances of ais with ais_corosync   -  then I
> re-run the apt-get install;  it works and gives me a working system,
> but this seems like the wrong way to do it, and I'm pretty sure I'm
> gonna experience significant pain next time the corosync package is
> updated.


Sorry, I didn't quite realize you might just be asking if your
work-around is kosher.

I think it looks good, just make sure any configuration parameters which
set the user reference to ais are updated to ais_corosync.

There really isn't any other way to make a work-around other than to
build from source after modifying post-inst, unless the normal install
finishes correctly; then just update the correct configuration variables
after manually creating the user you wish to use. 

HTH


-- 
Rik
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