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From: Jakov Smolic <jakov.smolic@×××××××.hr>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New acct-* packages for media-sound/snapcast
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:24:47
Message-Id: 679421a3-416f-7218-cb24-bda998a7e031@sartura.hr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New acct-* packages for media-sound/snapcast by Joonas Niilola
1 On 9/30/20 12:19 PM, Joonas Niilola wrote:
2 >
3 > On 9/30/20 1:09 PM, Jakov Smolic wrote:
4 >> Hi all,
5 >> I'd like to reserve 1 GID (462) and 2 UIDs (461 and 463) for new acct-*
6 >> packages needed with media-sound/snapcast.
7 >> I've submitted the packages as part of the following PR:
8 >> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/17333
9 >>
10 >> Thanks!
11 >
12 > Hi,
13 >
14 > this is not necessary anymore. You said in your PR you saw this is
15 > required, where did you see it? It's outdated information. Please refer to
16 I think I saw it on some older thread on the mailing list, can't
17 remember where exactly, I assumed later it's outdated but decided to
18 send the mail just in case.
19
20 > https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/user-group.html
21 >
22 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Proxied_Maintainer_FAQ#Adding_acct-.7Bgroup.2Cuser.7D.2Fpackages_as_a_proxied_maintainer
23 Yeah, saw those pages in the meantime :)
24
25 > Also do note we try to go downwards from 500, so the next available
26 > number seems to be 384, per,
27 >
28 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/tree/files/uid-gid.txt
29 >
30 > although a next free one will be given to you during merge. 461-463 are
31 > already taken.
32 Sure, I went through the list and picked first numbers from 500 that
33 were available, 416-463 seemed available, but I will change the numbers.
34 Thanks you!
35
36 > -- juippis
37 >
38 >
39
40 --
41 Best regards,
42 Jakov Smolic

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