Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] acct-user/amavis: new user (UID 333)

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 8/3/19 2:43 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> +
> +EAPI=7
> +
> +inherit acct-user
> +
> +ACCT_USER_ID=333
> +ACCT_USER_GROUPS=( amavis )
> +DESCRIPTION="User for mail-filter/amavisd-new"
> +
> +acct-user_add_deps

The existing user created by the amavisd-new ebuilds has a home
directory of /var/amavis. This was done to match the default value of
$MYHOME in the upstream config file, but is wrong: the FHS says that
applications should not create top-level directories in /var for their
own use. The right place for amavis' data is under /var/lib/amavis. And
now is certainly the time to make that change if we're ever going to
make it.

If we were to do so a month ago, we would have set the user's home
directory to /dev/null and used keepdir on /var/lib/amavis, because
otherwise the "home" directory itself would be left untracked by the
package manager. However, the acct-user eclass is smart enough to
keepdir the new home directory for us. That makes me think that we
should set

  ACCT_USER_HOME=/var/lib/amavis

to avoid the extra step. Does anyone see a downside to that, versus
leaving the homedir at /dev/null and creating the "extra" directory
under /var/lib?