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On 06/13/2012 09:18 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On 6/13/2012 12:00 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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>> Hey all - I'd like to propose that enewuser forces updates to a user's |
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>> home dir and shell whenever it is called, so that if this changes with |
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>> new versions of an ebuild it is dealt with automatically rather than |
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>> having to modify them in pkg_postinst/pkg_setup directly. |
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> Can you give an example of a case where modifying the home directory |
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> and/or shell is necessary? I don't really understand how this is useful. |
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package-1.2.3.ebuild creates user foobard with group foobard and sets |
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home to /dev/null |
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bug gets filed against package-1.2.3.ebuild that foobard needs a home or |
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it won't execute itself, and the maintainer changes the home to be |
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/var/lib/foobard in package-1.2.3-r1.ebuild |
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no change happens to passwd and the package continues to fail to run at all |
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like http://bugs.gentoo.org/420269 |
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sed -i -e '/^foobard/s:/dev/null:/var/lib/foobard' "${ROOT}"/etc/passwd |
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in pkg_postinst() doesn't seem very nice solution :/ |
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> Also, grobian raised a good point in that the sysadmin may have changed |
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> it manually. It might be better to ewarn and make the user deal with it. |
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i'd prefer argument to force the update, when the problem hits something |
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that 99,98% of users have installed, like sys-auth/polkit, an ewarn is |
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not adequate |
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- Samuli |
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