[Bug runtime/5705] Need more descriptive error messages on non-root systemtap invocation

["dsmith at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

------- Additional Comments From dsmith at redhat dot com  2008-02-04 15:06 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> Looks good.
> If one can find in e.g. the fedora packaging guidelines
> information to the effect of creating new groups during
> .rpm installation, we can plop such code into a new
> -runtime RPM %post piece.

The fedora packaging guidelines for creating users and groups is located here:

<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UsersAndGroups?highlight=%28Packaging%29>

The systemtap spec file already follows the latest fedora packaging guidelines
and creates the groups at install time.  This functionality was added on
2007-08-14.  It is done in the %pre section, like this:

  %pre
  getent group stapdev >/dev/null || groupadd -r stapdev
  getent group stapusr >/dev/null || groupadd -r stapusr
  exit 0

However, after thinking about it.  This needs to be done for the
systemtap-runtime rpm, not the main systemtap rpm.  So, the %pre section has
been moved to the systemtap-runtime rpm.

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