[Gnumed-devel] Ubuntu-specific issues

[Jerzy Luszawski]

Hello,

I know that the reference platform for Gnumed is Debian, but I use it under 
Ubuntu, and sometimes I run into Ubuntu-specific problems. 

This time I tried to bootstrap the latest database, and was stopped by the 
first check made by gm-bootstrap_server script.
The line below does not work in Ubuntu:
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if ! su -c "psql -t -d template1 -c \"show lc_ctype;\"" postgres | grep -q -e C 
-e UTF-8 ; then
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Ubuntu has a little different security defaults and "su -c" is not used (no 
user has a permission to do "su"). Instead, permission to  use "sudo" is 
granted.

This is no problem to me, but may confuse other users trying/evaluating Gnumed.
Maybe it is worth mentioning in Wiki? I and others could then report another 
Ubuntu-specific issues, which are important when building the package for this 
distro.

Jerzy Luszawski