Re: [gentoo-dev] About writing ebuild files

[Markus Wagner]

Hi!

On Monday 24 June 2002 06:33, George Shapovalov wrote:
> This way you as an author will get proper credit for ebuild submission,
> core developer will get his credit for processing/cleaning up your
> submission and a person updating the ebuild will get his due.
Sure. I forgot the Changelog. ;)

> You can execute adduser command from pkg_preinst. You might want to add
> corresponding deluser entry to pkg_postremove.
Ok. I asked, because I didn't find any documention about these two functions.

> However I am not sure if this is a desirable way to do so or rather should
> user addition be left to sysadmin (still probably not a very elegant
> solution as a few files likely need to be chowned). On the other hand you
> might prefer other username for this package - in case this is covered by
> any standart.
These were my thoughts. I think, normally user addition should be the job of 
the sysadmin, but the installation of cyrus-imapd have to create some 
directories (spool and so on) and they have to belong to "cyrus".

> I think you should include complete file and install it in the proper
> place. As long as it is installed in CONFIG_PROTECTed dir it does not
> overwrite installed version but rather gets a specially mangled name.
I know the configuration protection. That's not the problem. 
But I think, if I include a services file, that only contains the new entries, 
the user can easily recognize the required ones.

One non-technical question left: 
May I define new USE variables or is this the job of the core development?

Markus