Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté :
> Hi Russell and all others,
>
> On 2003-10-16 21:39 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:00, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > > The package postgresql needs to use 'adduser' and 'addgroup' in its
> > > preinst script to properly save the current database before upgrading
> > > (cf. Bug #180199). Therefore it should pre-depend on 'adduser'.
> >
> > Why would there be an issue on depending on a more important package?
> >
> > Having an optional/misc package pre-depend on an important/base package
> > seems
> > like a non-issue to me.
>
> adduser is neither essential nor required, thus does not need to be
> installed when installing postgres. I'm not quite sure what you mean,
> could you please explain this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
Hum, instead of adduser, useradd should be used by the posgresql
package.
useradd is included in the package passwd, which is "required" package
from the "base" section.
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