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On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 15:49 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:29:50PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > Some time ago William asked me to move UID/GID assignments from wiki [1] |
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> > to something more accessible. I've finally gotten around to draft |
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> > something, and I'd like to hear your comments about it. The idea is to |
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> > keep a whitespace-separated record format file in api.gentoo.org repo. |
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> > This is mostly inspired by Fedora's format, specifically the ability to |
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> > specify both UID and GID for matching user/group on the same line. |
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> > I've also decided not to attempt to specify disjoint Linux and FreeBSD |
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> > users/groups on a single line. Instead, they are specified separately |
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> > and defined by providers (as suggested by Ulrich). |
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> > Sample, along with big comment explaining the file format, below. |
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> I'm not sure how I feel about whitespace delimiters for this. withno |
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> further specification, it would make these two lines completely valid: |
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> root 0 0 baselayout |
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> bin 1 1 baselayout some notes here |
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> I propose using a colon like we do in /etc/passwd: |
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> root:0:0:baselayout: |
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> bin:1:1:baselayout:some notes go here |
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> Thoughts? |
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Worksforme. Do we allow extra whitespace in fields where it doesn't |
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matter for alignment? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |