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On 6/10/15 2:49 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 14:06 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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>> On 6/10/15 1:52 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Joakim Tjernlund |
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>>> <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se> wrote: |
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>>>> I wonder if it would be possible to use the script from sys-apps/getent(included below) |
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>>>> to impl. getent in user.eclass instead of using glibc's getent? I cannot see any downside, is there one? |
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>>>> |
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>>> glibc's getent can get data from any NSS plugin (ie. LDAP, MySQL, |
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>>> etc). Switching to use sys-apps/getent would mean that lookups would |
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>>> only be performed against the local flat files. |
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>>> |
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>> I added sys-apps/getent for musl and did not expect it to be used by |
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>> anything else. When I moved that script into sys-libs/musl, I masked |
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>> getent: |
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>> |
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>> # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: |
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>> # Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> (14 May 2015) |
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>> # No longer required by any packages in the tree. |
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>> # Masked for removal in 30 days. |
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>> |
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>> If you want to keep it, we can remove the mask, but it does block |
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>> against glibc and uclibc. |
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>> |
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> I think one would have to take the guts of the script and transform it into an egetent eclass |
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> function. Your script has done the hard part already so it should be easy to mangle into an eclass |
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> fkn. |
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> Jocke |
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To be clear, not mine, but from uclibc. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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