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2006-Jun-13 15:56 UTC
[Adduser-devel] Processed: Re: Bug#372599: Fails to purge
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tags 372599 +pending thanks This one time, at band camp, Jochen Friedrich said:> Hi Julien, > > while the order of commands in snmpd.postrm might not be optimal, > this is rather a bug of deluser --system returning an error on > non-existing users while the man page states it doesn''t. > > With adduser 3.85: > > # deluser --quiet --system blabla; echo $? > 0 > > With adduser 3.87: > > # deluser --quiet --system blabla; echo $? > 2 > > This is what the man page says: > > --system > Only delete if user/group is a system user/group. This avoids > accidentally deleting non-system users/groups. Additionally, if > the user does not exist, no error value is returned. This option > is mainly for use in Debian package maintainer scripts. > > Thus reassigning to adduser.Fixed in svn. Thanks. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''''`. Stephen Gran | | : :'' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `'' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Adduser-devel mailing list Adduser-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/adduser-devel