preinst is in smartlist 3.15-25build1.
This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 | #!/bin/sh
set -e
LISTHOME="/var/list"
LISTID=38
if ! grep -q "^list:" /etc/passwd; then
cat << FIN
Error: User \`list' does not exist.
You would have to upgrade the base-passwd package.
However, it is possible that the current base-passwd
does not automagically update /etc/passwd entries (yet).
In such case (if you know what you are doing) you may
create a new user with the following specifications:
login name: list, UID: $LISTID
group name: list, GID: $LISTID
home directory: $LISTHOME
FIN
exit 1
else
if ! grep -q "^list:.*:$LISTID:$LISTID:" /etc/passwd; then
echo "Error: \`list' user has not uid $LISTID and gid $LISTID"
echo "Please, fix this before trying again."
echo ""
exit 1
fi
if ! grep -q "^list:.*:$LISTID:$LISTID:.*:$LISTHOME:" /etc/passwd; then
echo "Error: \`list' home directory is not $LISTHOME"
echo "Please, fix this before trying again."
echo ""
exit 1
fi
fi
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