[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#739657: gnuhealth-server: fails to install: gnuhealth-server.postinst: sudo: not found

[Emilien Klein]

Hi team,

I have made the switch to use su instead of sudo [0].
Please upload gnuhealth 2.4.1-2 to unstable.

On 02/24/2014 01:57 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> I am also open to use su instead of sudo. That's even what I first
>> did, but (for some reason I can't remember) didn't get the command to
>> run succesfully using su, so I switched to sudo.
> 
> Ahh, may be you might be able to roll back and we might have a look at
> this problem?

I was able to reproduce my issue with su: since the user being a system
user, she didn't have a shell (default shell for new system users is
/bin/false).

Running the commands as
su --shell /bin/sh -c <COMMAND> <USERNAME>
works as expected.

>> Regardless of what comes out of the investigation and on the mentors
>> ML, I will try to make it work using su, and figure if I can reproduce
>> my issue with it.
> 
> :-)

Done ;)

>> I look at this as a good learning moment.
> 
> As every day if you open your eyes in the morning :-)

Yes, definitely a good learning opportunity.
One argument that we hadn't discussed yet, was that I would have needed
not just to Depend on sudo, but Pre-Depend on it (as it's needed in the
preinst maintainer script [even if it's just at upgrade moment]).

Thanks for helping me in my learning experience.
    +Emilien

[0] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med?view=revision&revision=16361

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 880 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/attachments/20140301/572492ff/attachment.sig>