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On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:19:42 +0100 |
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Manuel Rüger <mrueg@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 23.11.2016 10:08, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:44:33 +0100 |
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> > Manuel Rüger <mrueg@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> I have not started to write it, but I am considering it and rather want |
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> >> to gather feedback on my idea first. |
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> >> I am aware that https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:27 exists, but as of |
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> >> right now I haven't seen anyone working on it. The goal of this eclass |
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> >> is to improve user/group handling without touching the PMS. |
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> >> |
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> >> tl;dr: Userkit eclass will improve the user handling by externalizing |
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> >> the configuration to variables that can be set from outside of the ebuild. |
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> >> |
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> >> Userkit.eclass will inherit user.eclass and require bash arrays |
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> >> USERKIT_USER and USERKIT_GROUP for configuration. |
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> >> I will export a pkg_setup with the corresponding setup (basically |
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> >> calling enewuser and enewgroup). It will provide get_user, get_uid, |
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> >> get_group, get_gid and get_home functions. |
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> >> This would allow to do something like "fowners $(get_user):$(get_group) |
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> >> foo". |
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> >> |
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> >> If ${CATEGORY}-${PN}_user and ${CATEGORY}-${PN}_group are set, these |
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> >> will replace the contents of USERKIT_USER and USERKIT_GROUP, allowing |
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> >> the user to fully define everything user/group related. |
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> > |
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> > How does that all map to multiple users/groups? How does that map to |
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> > USE-conditional users/groups? How does that map to users/groups shared |
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> > between multiple packages? |
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> > |
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> simply via calling the function conditional in pkg_setup |
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> My goal is not to focus on handling multiple users/groups. Synchronizing |
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> settings between multiple packages is a task of the user, it doesn't |
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> make any sense to make guesses there. People will come up with wonderful |
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> symlinked solutions. |
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> > Besides, this sounds a lot like games.eclass... will developers be |
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> > required to patch upstream software now to force support for using |
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> > custom users/groups? |
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> I am not aware of any patches that are required. What I care about is |
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> having predictable uid/gid and home for everything I can configure via |
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> an ebuild. |
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Wait a minute. So you're talking about configuring UID/GID (as |
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in numbers) and not changing usernames? That's the problem when you |
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jump straight to solutions and don't state the problem -- nobody knows |
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what you're really up to. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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