[Fedora-packaging] packages which add user accounts: is fedora-usermgmt the way?
Christian.Iseli at licr.org
Christian.Iseli at licr.org
Wed Sep 7 09:18:02 UTC 2005
rc040203 at freenet.de said:
> Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:
> > rc040203 at freenet.de said:
> > > The only reason for not wanting to remove accounts on package removal to me
> > > is "accounts leaving stray files somewhere".
> >
> > > However, rpms should have always have control over all files it owns.
> >
> > Well, there are many cases of packages producing some files while they run,
> That's why I said "should".
>
> It is possible in many cases (%postun, %ghost or %triggerun scripts), but
> won't be possible or useful in all cases.
>
> E.g. I would not want an mysql update remove my mysql data bases.
Which is precisely why I think the ID should not be automatically removed...
Yes, I also used "should" :-) There certainly are packages where removing the
ID is fine, but I think the general rule should be conservative.
> > which they will not own. E.g.,
> >
> > root: rpm -qf /var/log/mysqld.log.4
> > file /var/log/mysqld.log.4 is not owned by any package
> > root: ls -l /var/log/mysqld.log.4
> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Aug 7 03:02 /var/log/mysqld.log.4
> >
> > So I think the UID should stay... until the sysadm removes it.
> IMO, this is an example where removing files is possible:
>
> E.g.
>
> %postun
> rm -f /var/log/mysqld.log*
I agree. I only spent a few seconds looking for some valid example of unowned
files. But I suspect there are tougher nuts.
Christian
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