[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#606784: snmpd: package fails to upgrade properly from lenny

[Luci Stanescu]

Are you this isn't something else? This part from the postinst script is
a bit weird:

the postinst does:

if [ "x$1" = xconfigure ]; then
        if [ ! `getent group snmp >/dev/null` ]; then
                 deluser --quiet --system snmp
        fi
        adduser --quiet --system --group --no-create-home --home
/var/lib/snmp snmp
        chown -R snmp:snmp /var/lib/snmp
fi

On my system (real system, not chroot, virtual machine etc.), I've
noticed this doesn't work because I've configured it to backup user home
directories when the user is deleted; so I get a lot of lines like:

/usr/sbin/deluser: Cannot handle special file /proc/28732/fd/1

The test [ ! `getent group snmp >/dev/null` ] will, as far as I can
tell, always be false (`somecommand >/dev/null` will always result in ''
so the test is effectively [ ! '' ]):

luci at lucifer:~$ [ ! `getent group root >/dev/null` ] && echo foo
foo
luci at lucifer:~$ [ ! `getent group lala >/dev/null` ] && echo foo
foo

Are you sure it shouldn't have been:
if ! `getent group snmp >/dev/null`; then
?

luci at lucifer:~$ ! getent group root >/dev/null && echo foo
luci at lucifer:~$ ! getent group lala >/dev/null && echo foo
foo

-- 
Luci Stanescu

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