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[Devil-linux-develop] problem with user upgrade script from 0.5 to 1.1.1-2004-01-04

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Hi!

I've just try how an upgrade from version 0.5 to 1.1.1-2004-01-04
works. So far so good but after the upgrade script has asked if it
should upgrade/migrate the users too I get the error messages
"unary operator expected" (see screenshot).

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MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
URL: http://www.lsl.at/                         Email: fl...@fl...
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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] problem with user upgrade script from 0.5 to 1.1.1-2004-01-04

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> I've just try how an upgrade from version 0.5 to 1.1.1-2004-01-04
> works. So far so good but after the upgrade script has asked if it
> should upgrade/migrate the users too I get the error messages
> "unary operator expected" (see screenshot).

I've never tried going from 0.5 to 1.X.  I don't have a 0.5 system to
try it on any longer.

Does 0.5 user shadow password files?  Shadow group files (gshadow)?

 - BS

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] problem with user upgrade script from 0.5 to 1.1.1-2004-01-04

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Bruce Smith wrote on 05.01.2004 19:32 MET:
>>I've just try how an upgrade from version 0.5 to 1.1.1-2004-01-04
>>works. So far so good but after the upgrade script has asked if it
>>should upgrade/migrate the users too I get the error messages
>>"unary operator expected" (see screenshot).
> 
> 
> I've never tried going from 0.5 to 1.X.  I don't have a 0.5 system to
> try it on any longer.

I've just found the config disk image of an old system which I used to
test what happens during the upgrade process - worst case testing ;-)

> Does 0.5 user shadow password files?  Shadow group files (gshadow)?

I can find the shadow but now gshadow. I've downloaded the 0.5a
release and there's also no gshadow included in that etc.tar.gz.

What I still have to try is to not repackage the 0.5 etc.tar.gz
to etc.tar.bz2. Will it catch that? We will see :-)

-- 
MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
____________________________________________________________________
Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
URL: http://www.lsl.at/                         Email: fl...@fl...
____________________________________________________________________

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] problem with user upgrade script from 0.5 to 1.1.1-2004-01-04

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > Does 0.5 user shadow password files?  Shadow group files (gshadow)?
> 
> I can find the shadow but now gshadow. I've downloaded the 0.5a
> release and there's also no gshadow included in that etc.tar.gz.

That's the problem.  The upgrade script is looking for gshadow.

> What I still have to try is to not repackage the 0.5 etc.tar.gz
> to etc.tar.bz2. Will it catch that? We will see :-)

Nope.

I'm not sure the gshadow error is worth fixing, since the etc
compression format won't work anyway.

 - BS

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] problem with user upgrade script from 0.5 to 1.1.1-2004-01-04

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Bruce Smith wrote on 05.01.2004 20:11 MET:
>>>Does 0.5 user shadow password files?  Shadow group files (gshadow)?
>>
>>I can find the shadow but now gshadow. I've downloaded the 0.5a
>>release and there's also no gshadow included in that etc.tar.gz.
> 
> 
> That's the problem.  The upgrade script is looking for gshadow.
> 
> 
>>What I still have to try is to not repackage the 0.5 etc.tar.gz
>>to etc.tar.bz2. Will it catch that? We will see :-)
> 
> 
> Nope.
> 
> I'm not sure the gshadow error is worth fixing, since the etc
> compression format won't work anyway.

Users, you never know...and if we advertise the upgrade feature
like we do now....(at least on the upcoming homepage)
What about a forced upgrade if it finds the etc.tar.gz instead
of etc.tar.bz2?

-- 
MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
____________________________________________________________________
Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
URL: http://www.lsl.at/                         Email: fl...@fl...
____________________________________________________________________

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] problem with user upgrade script from 0.5 to 1.1.1-2004-01-04

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > I'm not sure the gshadow error is worth fixing, since the etc
> > compression format won't work anyway.
> 
> Users, you never know...and if we advertise the upgrade feature
> like we do now....(at least on the upcoming homepage)
>
> What about a forced upgrade if it finds the etc.tar.gz instead
> of etc.tar.bz2?

That has nothing to do with the upgrade.  The upgrade program 
upgrades the /etc/ directory it finds in memory.

What you're asking is for the boot process to untar the old etc
directory if it finds it.  I think that would cause more problems 
than it's worth.

Maybe we should change the wording on the home page so it excludes 0.5?

 - BS