On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 01:06:51PM -0800, Racer X wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> >So what if I include 30 different UID/GID combinations?
>
> If I'm understanding correctly what you want to do, which is include
> separate binaries for each UID configuration, at some point it's going to
> make your distribution ridiculously big.
Suffer. :)
sendmail rpm I have is 260K. sendmail DOC rpm is 460K.
> And besides that, there's STILL
> no guarantee that the package will work on every distribution unless you
> account for every possible permutation of the UID space. It also fails to
> account for the usernames necessary being taken. Yes, qmail is an unlikely
> choice, but it's still possible that it's already present on the system.
How about a single uid/gid pair per rpm with a naming scheme like:
qmail-1.03_792_500-1.rpm
In fact, were one to do this, someone could automatically build the
rpm to the user's request.
> I think it would be really nice if Red Hat could guarantee a certain subset
> of the UID space available to packages like this that need predefined UIDs.
Already proposed. Already shot down.
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