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On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 09:20 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 1/20/20 2:02 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> > > install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under |
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> > > /home. |
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> > Nope. As you've been told, /home is site specific and can be setup |
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> > in |
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> > multiple ways that are incompatible with the package manager |
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> > installing |
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> > things there (the only exception being baselayout creating the |
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> > directory |
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> > itself). |
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> I haven't been given a single technical reason why using /home would |
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> cause a problem. What specific incompatibilities are you talking |
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> about? |
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> > Quoting FHS-3.0 again: |
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> > > On large systems (especially when the /home directories are |
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> > > shared |
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> > > amongst many hosts using NFS) it is useful to subdivide user home |
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> > > directories. Subdivision may be accomplished by using |
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> > > subdirectories |
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> > > such as /home/staff, /home/guests, /home/students, etc. |
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> > So, how are you going to detect if such a scheme is used on the |
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> > system, |
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> > and in which subdirectory the amavis user should be placed? |
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> The same way we detect that scheme before setting a home directory to |
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> /var/lib/whatever, which you may notice, is not under /home/guests or |
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> anything like that. Does this cause a real technical problem, or is |
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> it |
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> just more FUD? |
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Rich has given reasons, ulm has, and mgorny suggested a solution. |
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> > I also wonder why you would send this patch, when there wasn't a |
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> > single |
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> > voice supporting your proposition in the other thread and several |
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> > opposing ones. |
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> I don't want to just complain without offering a solution. |
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> No one has pointed out any problems with it. |
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Multiple people have pointed out issues with it in the last thread. In |
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fact, noone has said "great, go ahead". |
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> This stuff is already in /home, and I'd like to get off user.eclass |
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> without introducing a new QA warning for a keepdir file. |
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