[packman] realcrypt-7.0a-0.pm.2.1.i586 RPM scriptlet/postinstall bugs

AxelKöllhofer AxelKoellhofer at web.de
Tue Nov 30 18:17:18 CET 2010


Am Tuesday 30 November 2010 17:04:07 schrieb Matthias Andree:
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>
> Greetings,
>
> the realcrypt RPM scriptlets don't take upgrading into account, and will
> deinstall the sudoers/groups after an upgrade with zypper, as though the
> package had been deinstalled (which it hasn't).
>
> Reason is that the scriptlets do not check $1 to figure how many versions
> of the package are installed.
>
> Instructions: <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets>
> (also apply to openSUSE)
>
>
> IOW, the whole %postun scriptlet should be (note single = here, double ==
> is an unnecessary non-portable bashism)
>
> %postun
> if [ "$1" = 0 ] ; then
>   # original scriptlet follows
>   echo 'Removing group realcrypt...'
>   /usr/sbin/groupdel realcrypt &>/dev/null || :
>   echo 'Removing entry in /etc/sudoers...'
>   sed -i '/%realcrypt/d' /etc/sudoers
>   # end of original scriptlet
> fi
>
>
> The postinstall script seems safe at first superficial glance.
>
> (I can correspond in German and English, so pick whatever is conventional
> for the list.)

Thanks for the bug report, the issue is "about to be fixed".


The "about to be" means, that AFAIK the %postun will be run from the package 
previously installed, so one will need two updates until the change takes 
effect.

Right now, I checked in a version without any %postun, which should be 
available soon, just to be sure there is no "bad" postun in the installed 
version.

I will check in another package with the fixed %postun in a few days, hoping 
that most users will have received this "intermediate" update by then.

Greetings,

AK
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