Your message dated Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:52:14 -0500 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#781266: r-base-core: Package fails to install when there is no group names "staff" on the system has caused the Debian Bug report #781266, regarding r-base-core: Package fails to install when there is no group names "staff" on the system to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: r-base-core Version: 3.1.1-1+b2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When installing the package `r-base-core` (or anything that depends on it) on a clean jessie install (not upgraded) then the depricated "staff" group will not exist and the calls to `chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/R` and `chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/R/site-library` will fail. This prevents the package (and any dependant packages) from being configured correctly. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-999-lowlatency (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages r-base-core depends on: ii libblas3 [libblas.so.3] 1.2.20110419-10 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-7+b2 ii libc6 2.19-15 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libgfortran3 4.9.2-10 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 ii libgomp1 4.9.2-10 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.3.1-12 ii liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.5.0-4 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 ii libopenblas-base [liblapack.so.3] 0.2.12-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu4 ii libpcre3 2:8.35-3.3 ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+b2 ii libquadmath0 4.9.2-10 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b3 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libtcl8.5 8.5.17-1 ii libtiff5 4.0.3-12.2 ii libtk8.5 8.5.17-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1 ii ucf 3.0030 ii unzip 6.0-16 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4 ii zip 3.0-8 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages r-base-core recommends: iu r-base-dev 3.1.1-1 ii r-doc-html 3.1.1-1 iu r-recommended 3.1.1-1 Versions of packages r-base-core suggests: pn ess <none> iu r-base-html 3.1.1-1 pn r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf <none> pn r-mathlib <none> -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Adam, I owe you a cold beverage or two! Thanks *so much* for jumping in here. On 26 March 2015 at 18:46, Adam D. Barratt wrote: | Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible | Control: severity -1 normal | | On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 12:48 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 26 March 2015 at 18:03, Alexander Schlarb wrote: | > | Package: r-base-core | > | Version: 3.1.1-1+b2 | > | Severity: grave | > | Justification: renders package unusable | > | | > | When installing the package `r-base-core` (or anything that depends on it) on a | > | clean jessie install (not upgraded) then the depricated "staff" group will not | > | > Uh-oh. When did 'staff' get deprecated? | | As far as I'm aware, never. Policy lists no such status for the group, | nor does base-passwd's changelog. | | A freshly deboostrapped jessie root both contains the "staff" group and | has /usr/local owned by that group, as Policy 9.1.2 specifies that it | must. | | I don't know how the submitter got their system into such a state, but | this is in no way release-critical. In fact, it's most likely not a bug | at all. So long as r-base-core ensures that /usr/local actually exists | before attempting to chown things under it (as 9.1.2 also allows | for /usr/local to be removed) then this report should be closed. | If /usr/local exists then Policy by extension requires that the "staff" | group also exist. Ace. Here is what r-base-core.postinst does. Twelve years old and still valid. # edd 03 Apr 2003 cf Section 10.1.2 of Debian Policy if [ ! -e /usr/local/lib/R ]; then if mkdir /usr/local/lib/R 2>/dev/null; then chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/R chmod 2775 /usr/local/lib/R fi fi if [ ! -e /usr/local/lib/R/site-library ]; then if mkdir /usr/local/lib/R/site-library 2>/dev/null; then chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/R/site-library chmod 2775 /usr/local/lib/R/site-library fi fi So I am closing this. Dirk | | Regards, | | Adam | -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
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