Re: [gentoo-dev] New Eclasses: postgres and postgres-multi

[Manuel Rüger]

On 12.01.2016 20:22, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
> There are several ebuilds that repeat the same checks and need to
> perform the same duties when it comes to working with PostgreSQL. For
> example, making sure the users' currently slot is compatible with the
> ebuild requirements. postgres.eclass addresses this and has
> additional conveniences to build a dependency string and add a new user
> into the postgres system group.
>
> Additionally, as most of you are aware, we have a slot capable
> dev-db/postgresql. There is some difficulty that needed to be resolved
> so that extensions could also be installed into multiple slots, which is
> addressed by postgres-multi.eclass.
>
> I've an overlay at:
> https://github.com/titanofold/titanofold-gentoo-x86
>
> With the pgsql-eclass branch containing the eclass and a postgres-multi
> enabled PostGIS.
>
> Naturally, the eclasses work for me, so far.
>
> For your convenience, I've also attached the eclasses.
>

You might wanna add some quotes around the variables in that line:
enewuser $1 $2 $3 $4 ${groups}

Cheers,

Manuel