Bug 399877

Summary:	net-misc/stunnel-4.44: emerge failure when an old sys-apps/shadow is in the system
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Wojciech Migda <wojtek.golf>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Lance Albertson (RETIRED) <ramereth>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info output

Description Wojciech Migda 2012-01-23 19:40:29 UTC

I was emerging net-misc/stunnel-4.44 package and it failed with unability to execute the groupadd command. It was caused by having an old sys-aps/shadow version emerged (sys-apps/shadow-4.0.18.1).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="kerberos" emerge stunnel

Actual Results:  
emerge failed when it was trying to execute groupadd command to create the 'stunnel' group. Unfortunately I no longer have the console output.

After I upgraded shadow to shadow-4.1.4.3 the issue was fixed.

Expected Results:  
emerge stunnel checks for version dependency of the shadow package and emerges its newer version if necessary.

The fix is simple - add dependency on sys-apps/shadow version.

Comment 1 Wojciech Migda 2012-01-23 19:41:54 UTC

Created attachment 299641 [details]
emerge --info output

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-25 13:44:49 UTC

Please keep your system up to date. sys-apps-shadow was removed from the tree in 2007.