On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:58:24PM -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote: > qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group > to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the > new rules file as soon as it sees it, sees that group kvm doesn't > exist, and ignores that part of the rule (until reboot, udev restart, > or the rule is re-added, of course). > To fix this the kvm group should be created during preinst before the > udev rules file is unpacked. This requires adding adduser to the > Pre-Depends. vorlon warned me that any new pre-depends should be > discussed here first, so I'm emailing to ask - is this ok? Is there > a better way? FWIW, my own analysis is that this looks fine; qemu-system-common is nothing approaching a core package, and adduser is already one of the most common Pre-Dependencies in the archive (32 packages in unstable; the only more common pre-deps seem to be multiarch-support, and dpkg). So I think this is a clear cut legitimate use of a Pre-Depends, but of course this should still get other eyeballs on it in case I've missed something. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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