Re: Mailman pre-depend

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> wrote:
> In order to ensure that the list user exists in the system password
> tables, I need to check that, using the functions in libnss, so
> grepping /etc/{passwd,group} doesn't work.

> So, I use the following:

> if ! python -c 'import grp; print pwd.getgrnam("list")' > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
[...]

You should use id, chown or find instead and get rid of
predependency.

1) Stolen from fbgetty:
if ! id -u list >/dev/null 2>&1; then

2)
generate $temporary_file
if ! chown list $temporary_file > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then

3)
if ! find /tmp/ -user list > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then

findutils, shellutils and fileutils are Essential: yes.
             cu andreas
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