On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:26:09PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > The problem is that the _preinst_ might use the programs useradd and > > groupadd. > > Why not do it in the postinst, at configure time? Then a normal > dependency is enough. Because the uid should be present when the packge gets unpackaged. > If the user or group does not exist on the system, dpkg will use the > numeric IDs instead. which could also be used by another id - btw. common situation some time ago, dunno if it's still the case. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / The only stupid question is the unasked one /
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