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
next prev parent 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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