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hey all, |
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got working on an ebuild that required to have a new user and group |
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added, and had to break down to asking in #gentoo-dev the process, and |
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then having seemant say, i paraphrase, "yeah, something like that." |
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Problem seems to be a lack of policy/documentation on the process |
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involved. It seems quite a few entries in /etc/{group,passwd} are just |
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coded into baselayout, but i could be wrong on this. Currently, the |
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approach taken in most ebuilds is to add users/groups in the pkg_setup() |
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phase of an ebuild. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8634 |
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This bug contains a discussion of a new approach that seems to be the |
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way we're going with this stuff. This involves the eid_database and |
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enew{user,group} stuff discussed previously. seemant asked that i bring |
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this stuff up so we can get the ball really rolling on getting things |
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finally implemented and then establishing policy and documentation for |
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this stuff. |
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comments, concerns, ideas, etc? |
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-pete "just-wanted-to-add-a-user-and-a-group-for-one-ebuild" johanson |
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Peter Johanson |
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