On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 6:42 PM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 09:10:13AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > > IMO this is ugly and unfortunate.
> > The design around sysusers expects a model where files are unpacked
> > and *then* scripts are run. RPM doesn't work that way, which makes all
> > of this fall apart. In the ideal case, we could generate preinstall
> > scriptlets for this stuff from detected sysusers files on the fly, but
> > there's currently no way to do that.
>
> So.... not helping _currently_, but could we make rpm itself handle this in
> a different way: stuff the systemd-sysusers files into metadata available
> before anything is installed?
>
> > A more practical way to work around this is to always subpackage out
> > sysusers and use dependencies to guarantee that it's installed before
> > the package itself is. This would require the systemd file trigger to
>
> Ugggghhhhhh. That's practical but gross, unless there's some kind of
> macro/automation for the subpackage.
>

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1485


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