non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 7 12:47:14 UTC 2006


David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:48 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>>Mike McGrath wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The problem I have with the UserCreation page in the wiki is it provides
>>>no non fedora-usermgmt creation alternatives.  And since fedora-usermgmt
>>>is not yet in wide adoption I'm very hesitant to use it.
>>
>>Which in the scope of Fedora Extras is a small/non issue, IMO.  AFAIK, 
>>fedora-usermgmt acts (almost) exactly like the usual useradd when it's 
>>not specially configured by end-users.
> 
> 
> It also makes the specfile immediately fedora-centric.

This is *Fedora* Extras afterall.  (-:

> The second I used
> foedora-usermgmt for the puppet package, I had a request to make it
> build for CentOS again. 

You could always put in %post something like:
%if "{%?fedora:1}" == "1"
fedora-usermgmt bits
%else
non fedora-usermgmt bits
%endif

-- Rex




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