Dave Close wrote:
> Lately, whenever I run "dnf upgrade" and there are packages to be
> installed or upgraded, my output includes these messages, typically
> several iterations of them.
> 
>>>> Running sysusers scriptlet: systemd-0:258.4-1.fc43.x86_64
>>>> Finished sysusers scriptlet: systemd-0:258.4-1.fc43.x86_64
>>>> Scriptlet output:
>>>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/inn.conf:3: Conflict with earlier configuration for 
>>>> user
>>>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/slrn.conf:2: Conflict with earlier configuration for 
>>>> use
> 
> The last two lines are exactly as shown. The evident truncation is in the
> DNF output, not this message.
> 
> I've looked and I can't find any relevant older configuration files. (In
> fact, I haven't actually used inn or slrn for several years.) The versions
> installed are
> 
>   inn-2.7.3-4.fc43.x86_64
>   slrn-1.0.3a-20.fc43.x86_64
> 
> Presuming the messages indicate an actual problem, does anyone have an
> idea how to eliminate them? Should I just remove the packages?

If you don't use them, that's certainly a good option.

The warning appears to be because they each provide a
sysusers.d file to setup the 'news' user.  That should be
moved to some shared package, I imagine.

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/inn/blob/rawhide/f/inn.spec#_140-146
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/slrn/blob/rawhide/f/slrn.spec#_92-97

-- 
Todd

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