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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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> 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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> 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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> 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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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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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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> What happens if the ebuild wants to create multiple users/group? |
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> Currently, I want to ignore that case and focus on the 80% ebuilds that |
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> can profit from such an eclass. |
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Do you have specific numbers? I don't see 80% of ebuilds caring about |
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users/groups. I don't see the problem you are trying to fix. |
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Is it one of those problems that someone thinks it's awesome to make |
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everything declaratory, and add tons of middleware to make the |
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declaratory work somehow for the most common use cases? |
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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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