Can't create users and groups

[Peter Vrabec]

Jesse,

shouldn't we describe how we create users in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines

it would also make clear that maintainers shouldn't use fedora-usermgmt.

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 18:04:19 Mário Gamito wrote:
>> Would you be so kind to be more specific ?
>> I've tried the %pre section, but it didn't create the groups and the users.
>>
>> The %pre section is before the %prep, right ?
>>
>> The make setup already needs the users and groups to exist.
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't clear.  You can't rely on creating users during the build 
> process, as the place you build does not always equal the place you install.  
> You _have_ to be able to build without creating the users.  You use %pre to 
> create the users as %pre is executed on the host that you're installing the 
> package on, before the package files are put in place.  %pre creates the 
> user, %defatter defines that the files should be owned by said user when 
> they're laid out on the file system.
> 
> If the build (potentially without 'check') cannot complete without the user 
> being added, you may be stuck with fixing the broken make system for that 
> software.
> 
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