Bug 312841

Summary:	net-analyzer/tcpdump-4.1.1[-suid]: confusing elog message
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	pchrist
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin von Gagern 2010-04-02 16:46:02 UTC

Latest tcpdump introduces a suid USE flag in response to bug #283527.
If that USE flag is set, tcpdump will be installed suid root.
However, the postinst function prints an elog message unconditionally, claiming that "To let normal users run tcpdump add them into tcpdump group."
I'd suggest that message to be only logged if USE=suid, as it's wrong otherwise.

Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-07 17:23:44 UTC

Thank you Martin. Fixed in the tree.

Comment 2 Martin von Gagern 2010-04-09 13:27:11 UTC

It was fixed in 4.1.0-r1 for which I originally reported this, but it's back in tcpdump-4.1.1. Guess the bump was based on an outdated ebuild.

Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-12 14:55:26 UTC

Fixed again. Thank you.