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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 13:38:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461e0dfd-d480-7af5-d1c1-5bb029376368@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c33741eaf67e3a18629b7e3bd5f083ddd07eba3c.camel@gentoo.org>

On 1/4/21 1:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> Most importantly, it doesn't resolve the core issue of 'we need to
> update home before merging reverse dependencies'.
> 

Quoth the devmanual, "if your package requires a user, you can no longer 
be sure of that user's home directory or its ownership and permissions."
Any package depending on a new revision of an acct-user ebuild to change 
its home directory is broken.

This was the exact problem I was trying to avoid while you made rude 
comments about how I was wasting everyone's time =P


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-04 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-04  1:35 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04  2:41 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04  3:17   ` Alec Warner
2021-01-04  3:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 14:46   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 15:24     ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 15:55       ` David Seifert
2021-01-04 16:18         ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:28           ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:30             ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:34               ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:38                 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:50                   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:56                     ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:56                     ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04 16:54                 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04  7:32 ` Robin H. Johnson
2021-01-04 16:45   ` [gentoo-dev] " James Cloos
2021-01-04 18:07     ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:20       ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 18:38         ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2021-01-04 18:23       ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 18:27         ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:32           ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04  9:23 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2021-01-04 14:05   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:10   ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04 16:14     ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:20       ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:11       ` Fabian Groffen
2021-01-08 18:14         ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 18:23           ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:32             ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 15:48 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 16:03   ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 16:29     ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 16:50       ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 17:06       ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 18:10         ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:31           ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 19:15             ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 17:16       ` Michał Górny

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