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On Sun, 13 May 2012 00:48:00 +0200 |
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Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 01/19/2011 11:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > this is why we allow people to pick the appropriate step. ebuilds |
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> > should be using pkg_{pre,post}inst unless the user/group is needed |
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> > at src_* time. -mike |
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> I noticed a rather annoying test inside enewuser for existence of the |
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> provided "shell" path in the filesystem ( user.eclass lines 153-156 ). |
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> If you want to create an user and set the shell variable to an program |
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> you just emerge, you have to call it from pkg_postinst. |
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If you don't need it in install-time (i.e. don't install any files |
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owned by it), you should indeed defer the check as late as possible. |
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There's no point in creating user earlier when the emerge can still |
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fail/be aborted. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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