On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 01:23:46PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Can't put that on a CD with a md5 sum on it.
Greetz, Peter.
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