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On Sat, 2019-12-14 at 14:47 -0600, The Bit Pit wrote: |
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> acct-user/mythtv modifies the existing user if that user is not logged |
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> in. Mythtv has been around for years and users have created specialized |
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> configurations for the mythtv user. They do not like changes to the |
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> mythtv user when upgrading. |
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> A couple of solutions: |
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> 1) |
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> the ebuild does not depend on acct-user/mythtv when the user already |
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> exists. This prevents both the changing and deletion of the existing user. |
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> What is the gentoo way to discover a preexisting user? Repoman does not |
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> like anything I tried using egetent passwd mythtv |
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> 2) Add something to the acct-user/mythtv to (conditionally) prevent any |
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> change if there is a preexisting user on the system. The acct-user |
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> unmerge would also check that the user was not modified since it was |
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> created by acct-user. This seems like a lot of work. |
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Users are supposed to create a local acct-user/mythtv override if they |
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want to use a custom setup. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |