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On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 22:58 -0400, Mike Kelly wrote: |
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> I have a list of all packages in the tree that currently use either of |
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> those functions[2]. If you maintain one of these packages, I'd |
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> especially appreciate your feedback. |
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You missed games-* (yes, all of them) via the games.eclass, but I'm sure |
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there's a couple more eclasses that do user/group modification. |
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> Summarized, the format is: |
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> For each profile dir (e.g. profiles/base, profiles/default-linux, etc), |
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> a new subdirectory, called accounts is created as necessary. Inside |
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> that is a file called defaults, containing default uid/gid ranges, |
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> shells, etc for the given profile. Also, there are two directories, |
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> user/ and group/, which contain files named after the users and groups |
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> to be added. Those files contain more specific uid/gid info, etc. |
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> All the files are handled like other files in cascading profiles. Each |
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> line in the file is either a shell-style comment, or of the form: |
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> "key: value". The keys are: uid, shell, home, groups, comment, and gid. |
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What about applications that aren't tied to a profile? How do they |
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work? Doesn't this increase the size of the profiles pretty |
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dramatically? Does it need to be tons and tons of small files, or can |
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we get away with a set of larger files with some sort of header? |
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eg. |
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$ cat defaults |
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[default] |
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uid: 1-999 |
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shell: /bin/false |
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home: /dev/null |
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groups: |
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comment: user created by portage |
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gid: 1-999 |
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$ cat accounts |
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[portage] |
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uid: 250 |
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shell: /bin/false |
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home: /var/tmp/portage |
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groups: portage |
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comment: portage |
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gid: 250 |
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[apache] |
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uid: 81 |
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shell: /bin/false |
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home: /var/www/localhost |
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groups: apache |
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comment: apache |
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gid: 81 |
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As you can see, this changes very little, but reduces the number of |
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small files in the portage tree. Is this necessary? Who knows? Will |
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it makes syncs slightly faster? Not a clue. I'm just throwing out an |
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idea. |
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Anyway, this looks really good. =] |
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-- |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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