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

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On 01/05/2004 01:51:27 PM Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
>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 :-)

It won't work with etc.tar.gz.

Heiko