Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding users/groups in packages

[Grant Goodyear]

> While packaging tcb for secure Gentoo, I noticed it needed a group named
> chkpwd. How should I handle this in the ebuild? I assume tcb is going to be
> standard in secure Gentoo, so should this be handled in the ebuild at all?

You're quite right, it shouldn't be in an ebuild.  You can have 
a nice pkg_postinst() function that checks to see if the chkpwd 
group exists and print a message to the user if it doesn't.  
Ultimately, though, we should add the chkpwd group to our
/etc/passwd, which will solve the problem.

-g2boojum-