Failure of the inetutils-server.sh postinstall script

[Bogdan]

Hi,

I installed the inetutils package but not inetutils-server. The installer then 
executed the inetutils-server.sh. The script then failed because the getent 
package, which I presume is a prerequisite for inetutils-server but not 
inetutils, had not been installed. I hope this information is useful to you.

Cheers,
Bogdan

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Re: Failure of the inetutils-server.sh postinstall script

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 13 14:20, Bogdan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the inetutils package but not inetutils-server. The
> installer then executed the inetutils-server.sh.

It can only do that if the inetutils-server package *has* been
installed, because the file etc/postinstall/inetutils-server.sh is part
of the inetutils-server package.  Setup can't run a script which isn't
installed.

> The script then
> failed because the getent package, which I presume is a prerequisite
> for inetutils-server but not inetutils, had not been installed. I hope
> this information is useful to you.

The getent package is in category Base.  The packages from category Base
are always installed by setup, and for good reason.  If you deinstalled
it forcefully, it is not the packages fault.


Corinna

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