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On 12/15/15 4:55 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On 15 Dec 2015 22:35, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>> Whatever the format will be, the more important question is where this |
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>> would be implemented: |
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>> - In the package manager, with user and group definition in profiles. |
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>> This seems to be what GLEP 27 suggests, and as far as I can see, it |
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>> would require an EAPI bump. Certainly doable, but last time we |
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>> bumped profiles to a new EAPI we had a rather long transition |
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>> period. |
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>> - In user.eclass, which could be extended to use the EUSERS and |
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>> EGROUPS variables defined in ebuilds. The problem is, where would |
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>> one store the user and group definitions then? Profiles cannot be |
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>> accessed from an eclass. |
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> long term, i think profiles are better to hold the db as it provides for |
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> clean stacking and is trivial for site-specific extension/control, as well |
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> as image builders via something like catalyst. |
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> short/mid term, i was thinking of writing a new package that holds the db |
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> and tools to query/manage it. user.eclass would DEPEND on it and ask it |
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> for details, perhaps even doing the actual fs updates (the bash code here |
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> is not pretty wrt locks and python would be much nicer). that tool could |
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> even search additional site paths (like /usr/local) to locate overrides. |
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how do we get our own uid/gid's in there for our packages? just open a |
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bug against the new package? |
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> the API to ebuilds/eclasses would be unchanged. in CrOS, we only look at |
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> the first argument (the user/group name) and load all other details from |
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> the db. we could seamlessly migrate over existing ebuilds by opting in to |
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> this simpler form. |
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> maybe the short/mid term solution is enough to not get into profile mess |
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> even if i think it's the correct data storage location. |
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> -mike |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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