non fedora-usermgmt user creation
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue Mar 7 23:16:21 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 22:09 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> ville.skytta at iki.fi (Ville Skyttä) writes:
>
> >> 3. Would it be really a problem to maintain another spec-file?
> >
> > Do I really have to answer that question?
>
> I think, it is wasted time to try to write spec-files which are running on
> all and every distribution.
Agreed, but I don't remember anyone mentioning trying that in this
thread. The problems caused by dependencies on fedora-usermgmt occur
way before the "all and every" phase.
> | %pre
> | if test -x /usr/sbin/fedora-useradd; then
> | /usr/sbin/fedora-useradd ...
> | else
> | /usr/sbin/useradd ...
> | fi
>
> with current fedora-usermgmt.
Yes? That's the functionality I suggested, just expressed with a
different shell syntax. Combine something like the above and again,
_no_ dependencies on fedora-usermgmt in packages and I'm satisfied.
> This explicit activation can happen in the %pre script of kickstart.
Surely the whole usermgmt package or necessary bits of its payload could
be installed there too.
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