Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC acct-{user,group} for asterisk

[Jaco Kroon]

Hi Michał,

You're right.

Fedora and RHEL has gdm on 42, we don't have gdm via acct-{user,group}
and it's dynamic in the ebuild.

Arch has privoxy user on 42.  We also don't have acct-{user,group} for
that, enewgroup + user is both dynamic in ebuild.

What's the motivation for trying to match the UID and GID values from
other distributions?

I previously tried to motivate a "purely dynamic" allocation with -1,
I'm showing this as an example where such an implementation would once
more be beneficial.

On a similar note, GLEP 27 allowed for overriding config variables
here.  Never got implemented.  GLEP 81 does not.  Oversight or (as per
my suspicion) exclusion to keep things simpler?

Would 142 be acceptable?

Only conflict seems to be activemq on Fedora (which we don't seem to have).

Otherwise 242 seems to be completely available.

I don't particularly care what the exact value ends up being, 42 would
have been a sweet one due to the ascii value of * being 42.


Kind Regards,
Jaco Kroon

On 2019/11/10 18:31, Michał Górny wrote:

> On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 18:23 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As part of taking maintainership of the net-misc/asterisk package (and
>> related), one of the cleanup items is to use the new acct-{user,group}
>> method for assigning UID and GID values.
>>
>> As such I'd like to please reserve UID and GID = 42 for asterisk.
>>
>> Why 42?
>>
>> echo -e "\x$(bc <<<"obase=16; 42")"
>>
>> Current net-misc/asterisk uses a dynamically assigned UID and GID value.
>>
>> I do not have permission to edit
>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UID_GID_Assignment_Table
>> (https://api.gentoo.org/uid-gid.txt).
>>
>> Neither RHEL nor Fedora seems to have an asterisk user.  Arch uses 77.
>> We already have qemu on 77.
>>
>
> Other distros use 42 for something else, particularly for stuff we have
> as well.
>