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I sent the following to SpanKY a while back as my thoughts on how to |
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move GLEP 27 away from xml (which the portage devs would really rather |
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avoid). It has his tentative approval, so now I'd like to get some |
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general comments. GLEP 27 is a really good idea, and it would be nice |
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to have it implemented. |
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-g2boojum- |
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----- Forwarded message from Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> ----- |
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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> |
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:37:03 -0600 |
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To: vapier@g.o |
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User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i |
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Subject: glep 27 thoughts |
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I've been thinking a bit about how to make uid/gid handling work w/o |
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needing xml. It seems like it ought to be simple enough to replace |
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the xml files with simple plain-text files which look like the |
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following: |
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# cat groups/dovecot |
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gid = 97 |
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# cat users/dovecot |
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uid = 97 |
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shell = /bin/false |
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home = /dev/null |
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groups = dovecot, foo, bar |
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gecos = Added by portage for dovecot # (normally autogenerated) |
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Essentially, these files would just contain the same information as what |
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one would use w/ groupadd and useradd, but w/ more readable syntax. |
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I'm also thinking that instead of putting these files in |
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portage/profiles/accounts, perhaps we should permit an "accounts" |
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directory in each stage of a cascading profile, thus moving the platform |
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logic (linux vs hurd vs *bsd vs whatever) from the user and group files |
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(which, in the original glep, would list info for all supported |
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platforms) to the cascading profiles (default-linux, default-bsd/fbsd, |
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etcetera). |
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Any of this make sense? |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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