[Fedora-packaging] Re: Second user/group handling draft

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:18:22PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 11.05.2007 14:04, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:40:21PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >>
> >> So I'm trying it in a different way: say I'm a sysadmin and I want to
> >> have the same static UIDs and GIDs on all my systems for *all* Fedora
> >> packages that create UIDs or GIDs during install. I need a list of
> >> groupnames and usernames such packages might create to prepare a
> >> modified setup package.
> > I understand, I thought you wanted to have an official registry for
> > uid/gid mappings, but you just want to know which user/groups exist at
> > all.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > [...]
> > But maybe the following can make you happy: A script that greps
> > through the CVS and extracts these for you automatically.
> 
> If that works: sure. But we should not force sysadmins to download the
> whole cvs and run such a script -- we instead should autogenerate and
> upload it somewhere IMHO.

Yes, that's what I meant.

> > But that's not something we would mention in the guidelines.
> 
> Agreed.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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