Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving UID/GID assignments to api.gentoo.org

[William Hubbs]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 05:41:56PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 1:49 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:29:50PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Some time ago William asked me to move UID/GID assignments from wiki [1]
> > > to something more accessible.  I've finally gotten around to draft
> > > something, and I'd like to hear your comments about it.  The idea is to
> > > keep a whitespace-separated record format file in api.gentoo.org repo.
> > >
> > > This is mostly inspired by Fedora's format, specifically the ability to
> > > specify both UID and GID for matching user/group on the same line.
> > > I've also decided not to attempt to specify disjoint Linux and FreeBSD
> > > users/groups on a single line.  Instead, they are specified separately
> > > and defined by providers (as suggested by Ulrich).
> > >
> > > Sample, along with big comment explaining the file format, below.
> >
> > I'm not sure how I feel about whitespace delimiters for this. withno
> > further specification, it would make these two lines completely valid:
> >
> > root 0 0 baselayout
> > bin 1                           1                               baselayout                                      some notes here
>
> That's true, but I think with editor settings embedded in the file and
> visual pattern of vertical alignment we shouldn't expect a bunch of
> problems.

We don't honor editor settings in files by default, so this will not
work out of the box (see this in /etc/vim/vimrc).

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" {{{ Modeline settings
" We don't allow modelines by default. See bug #14088 and bug #73715.
" If you're not concerned about these, you can enable them on a per-user
" basis by adding "set modeline" to your ~/.vimrc file.
set nomodeline
" }}}
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If we are going to require a modeline, shouldn't we consider allowing
them by default so we can work out of the box instead of having to tweak
our editor settings?

William