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 02:20:03 PM Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
>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?

That would need a major re-write of the initrd.

I would say it's not supported with version < 1.0.

Heiko