On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 15:49 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:29:50PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some time ago William asked me to move UID/GID assignments from wiki [1] > > to something more accessible. I've finally gotten around to draft > > something, and I'd like to hear your comments about it. The idea is to > > keep a whitespace-separated record format file in api.gentoo.org repo. > > > > This is mostly inspired by Fedora's format, specifically the ability to > > specify both UID and GID for matching user/group on the same line. > > I've also decided not to attempt to specify disjoint Linux and FreeBSD > > users/groups on a single line. Instead, they are specified separately > > and defined by providers (as suggested by Ulrich). > > > > Sample, along with big comment explaining the file format, below. > > I'm not sure how I feel about whitespace delimiters for this. withno > further specification, it would make these two lines completely valid: > > root 0 0 baselayout > bin 1 1 baselayout > some notes here > > I propose using a colon like we do in /etc/passwd: > > root:0:0:baselayout: > bin:1:1:baselayout:some notes go here > > Thoughts? >
Worksforme. Do we allow extra whitespace in fields where it doesn't matter for alignment? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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