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From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] nix and guix GID/UID assignments
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 20:35:13
Message-Id: 20191124203504.74937eea@sf
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] nix and guix GID/UID assignments by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:19:36 +0100
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
5 >
6 > > I interpreted 'reserved' as 'free to use' on
7 > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/UID_GID_Assignment
8 > > Can you tweak it to someting other than 'reserved' so it would be clear?
9 >
10 > That's what the "Notes" column was intended for.
11 >
12 > > I'll use 60001 .. 60999 / 61001 .. 61999. Is it free though?
13 > > '60001..65533' claims to also be 'reserved' as well.
14 >
15 > Debian is also using the range above 60000 for allocations that won't
16 > fit into the low range. Theoretically, there is some overlap with
17 > systemd dynamic users (61184..65519), but IIUC assigning other UIDs in
18 > that range isn't a problem, as long as there are enough free IDs left.
19 >
20 > Another question, the above are about 2000 users and 2000 groups.
21 > Does that imply that we will eventually end up with 4000 packages
22 > in acct-{user,group}?
23
24 Should be 2000 users, 2 groups. Worst case it's 2002 packages, yes.
25
26 --
27
28 Sergei

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] nix and guix GID/UID assignments David Seifert <soap@g.o>