Re: Create user during installation

Tilman Koschnick wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:18 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, This question is about a package that will likely not make it into Debian (too specific). I even suspect this has some relevance. I would like to install a package that creates it's own special user and

Re: Create user during installation

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:32:00AM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:20 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:47 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > > Leave the deletion

Re: what's a sponsor ?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:21:23PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Thursday 31 March 2005 23:08, Florian Ernst wrote: > > Hello *, > > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:02:47PM +0200, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina > wrote: > > > I saw a flow of "RFS:" messages. > > > Does RFS mean Request For Spon

Re: Create user during installation

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:20 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:47 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > Ugh, no. Do *not* remove users on purge, it's reason for all kinds of > > > problems, amongst

Re: Create user during installation

> > > Leave the deletion of obsolete users up to the system administrator, do > > > not do so on purge. > > > > What about small daemons that don't generate any files and don't require > > anything apart from what's in the package? > > In general, you cannot assume that the administator doesn't u

Re: Create user during installation

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:47 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Ugh, no. Do *not* remove users on purge, it's reason for all kinds of > > problems, amongst others that you can never assure all files owned by > > that user are r

Re: Create user during installation

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:47 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Ugh, no. Do *not* remove users on purge, it's reason for all kinds of > problems, amongst others that you can never assure all files owned by > that user are removed, and therefore leaving userless files on the > system. You can't ev

Re: Create user during installation

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:38:42PM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: > grep for 'adduser' in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*postinst to see some examples. > You can use getent(1) to check for the existence of a user. > > Here is what I do (package gpsd): (...) > postrm: > | if [ "x$1" = "xpurge" ] ; then >

Re: RFS: nzb - A binary news grabber using nzb files

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Re: Create user during installation

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:18 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > This question is about a package that will likely not make it into > Debian (too specific). I even suspect this has some relevance. > > I would like to install a package that creates it's own special user and > group during

Re: what's a sponsor ?

On Thursday 31 March 2005 23:08, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello *, > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:02:47PM +0200, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > > I saw a flow of "RFS:" messages. > > Does RFS mean Request For Sponsor? > > Yes. > > > What's that? What is it about? I dont understand... > > >

Create user during installation

Hi all, This question is about a package that will likely not make it into Debian (too specific). I even suspect this has some relevance. I would like to install a package that creates it's own special user and group during installation. I have utterly and totally failed to find a ready made pa

Re: what's a sponsor ?

Hello *, On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:02:47PM +0200, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > I saw a flow of "RFS:" messages. > Does RFS mean Request For Sponsor? Yes. > What's that? What is it about? I dont understand... > > Searching "debian sponsor" on google did not give the answer...

what's a sponsor ?

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RFS: python-visual - VPython 3D scientific visualization library

Hi I have been packaging VPython for some time now and would like to get it into the main Debian archive. There has been an ITP for this way back in September 2001 (#112118) which was retitled to RFP in December 2002 due to nothing happening with it. According the the WNPP bug (#112118) Debian J

RFS: setpwc and bmeps

Hi I have made some packages and ask for comments about the quality of the packaging. Perhaps someone is interested in sponsoring any of them. In the first instance these are setpwc (could close #290553) and bmeps (and related packages, a doc, a library, and a dev package) from the bmeps sources.

RFS: php4-dbase

ITP here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302242 * Package name: php4-dbase Version : 4.3.10 Upstream Author : The PHP Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.php.net/ * License : (PHP License, libdbf) Description : dBase module for p

RFS: emilda - web-based Integrated Library System

ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/263826 * Package name: emilda Version : 1.2.2 Upstream Author : Christoffer Landtman * URL : http://www.emilda.org/ * License : GPL Description : web-based Integrated Library System Emilda is a complete Integrated Library Syst

RFS: idzebra - high-performance, text indexing and retrieval engine

ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/263830 * Package name: idzebra Version : 1.3.24 Upstream Author : Adam Dickmeiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ * License : GPL Description : high-performance, text indexing and retrieval engine

RFS: php4-yaz

ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/263833 * Package name: php4-yaz Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Adam Dickmeiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pecl.php.net/package/yaz * License : http://www.php.net/license/3_0.txt Description : php/yaz z39.50 module PH

RFS: libnet-z3950-perl

ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/263821 * Package name: libnet-z3950-perl Version : 0.47 Upstream Author : Mike Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/ * License : GPL Description : extension to Perl for talking to Z39.50 servers This modul

RFS: libmarc-record-perl

ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/251875 * Package name: libmarc-record-perl Version : 1.38 Upstream Author : Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/ * License : GPL or Artistic Description : Perl extension

RFS: libgd-barcode-perl

ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/263831 * Package name: libgd-barcode-perl Version : 1.15 Upstream Author : Kawai Takanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWITKNR/ * License : GPL or Artistic Description : Create barcode