On Mon, 19 May 2008, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
2008/5/19 Michael Krauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 19/05/08, Callan Barrett wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Michael Krauss
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 18/05/08, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UID_and_GID_list
dma now occupies 74:74.
I don't think you're meant to actually edit this list are you? It's
just for reference.
Maybe you are right, I don't know. There were two points why I
supposed editing is ok:
i) The page isn't write protected.
ii) If I am not allowed to add ids that I use, others aren't
allowed too. That implies there may be packages out there that
use unlisted ids. So using an unlisted id for my package to not
interfere with other programs is useless. Finally this means
the list isn't that important and could be ignored.
But if it's not important, why not editing it myself ;-)
However, if you want my entries to be removed, simply delete them. I
promise to not adding them again in this case. Instead I would add
some voodoo to the dma.install script to make sure that the ids are not
used when installing the package. Unfortunately this won't prevent an
other subsequently installed package from reusing the ids.
I'd say the best way for handling this situation is:
* user posts a list of his/her packages that need uid/gid,
* dev/tu decides which uid/gid number it should be and adds them
* user modifies his/her packages to use the hardcoded uids/gids
Note that it is not recommended to add new uids/gids below 100,
unless it is some standard system package or a very popular one with
the same uid/gid in every distro
(something like that, you've got the idea, I guess).
I had forgotten to protect the page. I've reverted the changes that you
made. Probably Roman's suggestion is the best way to get new uid/gid
numbers added to the page.
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