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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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William |