[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#577366: Bug#577366: Bug#577366: puppet: FTBFS: install: invalid user `puppet'

[micah anderson]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:23:25 +1000, Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:15:14AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > install -Dp -m0644 -o puppet -g puppet ext/rack/files/config.ru \
> > > 		/build/user-puppet_0.25.4-3-amd64-zxBvTe/puppet-0.25.4/debian/puppetmaster/usr/share/puppet/rack/puppetmasterd
> > > install: invalid user `puppet'
> > > make: *** [install] Error 1
> > 
> 
> Looks like this was introduced in commit
> 93a3ed1e3b70fe394f7ac96c235d527347ad57d2.
> 
> Micah, the brown paper bag is all yours ;-)

Right, however I'm afraid your solution to this issue was not the right
one. We actually *do* want the config.ru file owned by the user puppet
because passenger will suid to that user.

Perhaps a better answer would be to do this in a postinst?

micah

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