On 04/03/2021 09:15, George N. White III wrote:
The Changelog at britty.com <http://britty.com> for the 6.3 release says the systemd component was changed to create the brlapi group if it doesn't exist, so the same functionality as the script. Maybe the change was a response to systems that failed to run the install script. What creates the brltty group?
Seems to me that changelog only applies to the packages supplied by britty.com. At britty.com there includes a brltty-systemd-6.3-1.noarch.rpm which is what I believe is being referenced in the changelog comment. Systemd changes: The brlapi group is created during boot if it doesn't already exist. The brltty service file included with that rpm has a size of 2827. Fedora's service file has a size of 217 and comes with brltty-6.3-1.fc34. The britty.service supplied by britty.com includes a call to /usr/libexec/brltty/systemd-wrapper. That file doesn't exist in the Fedora world. So, I don't think documentation on the brltty site is a faithful mirror of things included in Fedora. I don't understand your question about what creates the group. The britty.com rpms don't contain any scripts. I've already mentioned that the packages supplied by Fedora include a PREIN script that creates the group. [egreshko@f34k ~]$ grep brlapi /etc/group [egreshko@f34k ~]$ sudo dnf install brltty Last metadata expiration check: 1:26:29 ago on Thu Mar 4 09:17:28 2021. Dependencies resolved. ================================================================================== Package Architecture Version Repository Size ================================================================================== Installing: brltty x86_64 6.3-1.fc34 fedora 1.5 M Installing dependencies: brlapi x86_64 0.8.2-1.fc34 fedora 177 k pcre2-utf32 x86_64 10.36-4.fc34 fedora 203 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================== Install 3 Packages Total download size: 1.9 M Installed size: 8.3 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/3): brlapi-0.8.2-1.fc34.x86_64.rpm 700 kB/s | 177 kB 00:00 (2/3): pcre2-utf32-10.36-4.fc34.x86_64.rpm 691 kB/s | 203 kB 00:00 (3/3): brltty-6.3-1.fc34.x86_64.rpm 3.1 MB/s | 1.5 MB 00:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1.0 MB/s | 1.9 MB 00:01 Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Installing : pcre2-utf32-10.36-4.fc34.x86_64 1/3 Installing : brltty-6.3-1.fc34.x86_64 2/3 Running scriptlet: brltty-6.3-1.fc34.x86_64 2/3 Running scriptlet: brlapi-0.8.2-1.fc34.x86_64 3/3 Installing : brlapi-0.8.2-1.fc34.x86_64 3/3 Running scriptlet: brlapi-0.8.2-1.fc34.x86_64 3/3 Verifying : brlapi-0.8.2-1.fc34.x86_64 1/3 Verifying : brltty-6.3-1.fc34.x86_64 2/3 Verifying : pcre2-utf32-10.36-4.fc34.x86_64 3/3 Installed: brlapi-0.8.2-1.fc34.x86_64 brltty-6.3-1.fc34.x86_64 pcre2-utf32-10.36-4.fc34.x86_64 Complete! [egreshko@f34k ~]$ grep brlapi /etc/group brlapi:x:979: So, the install process creates the group. And, of course, users need to be added as needed. -- People who believe they don't make mistakes have already made one. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
