[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#601658: Bug#601658: dbus: maintainer script uses group messagebus, but does not ensure it exists

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 02:33:22PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 28.10.2010 08:55, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>> In a rather minimal chroot:

>> Setting up dbus (1.2.24-3) ...
>> chown: invalid group: `root:messagebus'

>> If dbus needs group "messagebus" to exist, it should either create it
>> or (pre-?)depend on a package that does.

> dbus postinst does create a user and group messagebus:

> How did you create your chroot? Was that really a clean install of dbus?
> Did you already have a user "messagebus" in your chroot passwd but no
> corresponding group "messagebus", i.e. did you copy passwd from somewhere into
> your chroot?

Yes, you are right, that's exactly what happened.

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Lionel