post script fail

English Open Build Service (OBS)
#1

Hi

I am quit new to OBS and have only build a few rpm in the past, so please be gentle with me.

Previously I have successfully build a package the old fashioned way using rpmbuild in ~/rpm catalog with the usual BUILD, SPEC ect. structure. To share this package with the world I tried to move the package to build service.

The daemon needs a system account and working directory so in the spec file I have made the following lines:

%post
if ! /usr/bin/getent passwd rbldns >/dev/null; then
  /usr/sbin/useradd --system --home /var/lib/rbldns rbldns
  /bin/mkdir -p -m0755 /var/lib/rbldns
fi

But when I try to build in OBS build fails:

... testing for pre/postinstall scripts that are not idempotent
/.build_patchrpmcheck_scr: line 2: /usr/sbin/useradd: No such file or directory
postinstall script of rbldnsd-0.996b-3.1.x86_64.rpm failed
System halted.

What is the correct way to accomplish this?

#2

Ensuring that the package containing useradd is present during build (BuildRequires).

#3

Thanks for the pointer. Got it building now.

(pew … a lot of warnings though)