Re: Gnumed installation
> Summary for the Debian-med group:
> Someone reported a problem installing gnumed-server on Ubuntu. Before you
> say
> this is Debian and not Ubuntu let me tell you that I believe it affects
> Debian
> as well. The error that is encountered by the Ubuntu user is
>
> >> chgrp: invalid group: 'gnumed'
> >> dpkg: error processing gnumed-server (--configure):
> >> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> status
>
> It does not seem to happen when a user installs gnumed-client prior to
> gnumed-
> server. That made me thinking.
>
> Recently the package gnumed-server droped the dependency gnumed-common.
> The
> package gnumed-client still has this dependency.
>
> addgroup gnumed seems to solve the problem so I was thinking the
> gnumed-client
> does something gnumed-server does not. Looking at the postinst script it
> seems
> there is some magic with regards to groups going on.
>
> So my guess is that since gnumed-common was droped as a dependency this is
> not
> done for the server anymore.
This analysis is correct.
However, since GNUmed itself doesn't need/use the system group "gnumed"
everything should still work as expected.
I have just recently been discussing the purpose of this with Andreas
but haven't really understood why it is wanted to be kept (at the moment,
I do see potential uses for it).
Karsten
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