#196 rpm installation failed

[taspenatu]

The installation of the rpm on CentOS failed.

# yum localinstall opensearchserver-1.5.8-b795.rpm 
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Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package opensearchserver-1.5.8-1.noarch
Usage: useradd [options] LOGIN

Options:
  -b, --base-dir BASE_DIR       base directory for the home directory of the
                                new account
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/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.R3UJVk: line 2: -g: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.R3UJVk: line 3: OpenSearchServer: command not found
error: %pre(opensearchserver-1.5.8-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping opensearchserver-1.5.8-1
  Verifying  : opensearchserver-.5.8-1.noarch                             1/1

Failed: opensearchserver.noarch 0:1.5.8-1

The problem is a wrong formatting in the preinstall scriptlet:

# rpm -qp --scripts opensearchserver-1.5.8-b795.rpm
preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
getent passwd opensearchserver >/dev/null || useradd -r
                                                        -g daemon -d /var/lib/opensearchserver -s /bin/bash -c
                                                        "OpenSearchServer" opensearchserver
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
cp -f /usr/share/opensearchserver/opensearchserver
                                                        /etc/init.d   /opensearchserver && chmod a+x
                                                        /etc/init.d/opensearchserver

The workaround is to rpmrebuild opensearchserver and put the commands to a single line (alternative put backslashes at the end of the lines).

# rpmrebuild -e -p opensearchserver-1.5.8-b795.rpm

And the result should look like this

# rpm -qp --scripts /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/opensearchserver-1.5.8-1.noarch.rpm
preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
getent passwd opensearchserver >/dev/null || useradd -r -g daemon -d /var/lib/opensearchserver -s /bin/bash -c "OpenSearchServer" opensearchserver
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
cp -f /usr/share/opensearchserver/opensearchserver /etc/init.d/opensearchserver && chmod a+x /etc/init.d/opensearchserver

[Emmanuel Keller]

You're right. The problem was with the re-formatting in an XML file. We have moved the content of the script in a separate file.

It has been fixed in v1.5.9. Currently, the last build is here:
http://www.open-search-server.com/ftp/OpenSearchServer_1.5/build-1.5-b836/

The GitHub issue is here:
https://github.com/jaeksoft/opensearchserver/pull/1246

[taspenatu]

Ok, I'll try the new build.
I've seen another (maybe already fixed) bug in the gui.

Thanks a lot!