Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/9] User/group package draft implementation

2019-05-31 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 11:37 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 04:08:28PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 09:02 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > > I have one small nit-pick. > > > > > > Can we use sys-users and sys-groups for the category names for the user >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/9] User/group package draft implementation

2019-05-31 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 04:08:28PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 09:02 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > I have one small nit-pick. > > > > Can we use sys-users and sys-groups for the category names for the user > > and group packages? > > > > I guess the only argument I can gi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/9] User/group package draft implementation

2019-05-31 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 09:02 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > I have one small nit-pick. > > Can we use sys-users and sys-groups for the category names for the user > and group packages? > > I guess the only argument I can give is users and groups are system > level things like other categories that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/9] User/group package draft implementation

2019-05-31 Thread William Hubbs
I have one small nit-pick. Can we use sys-users and sys-groups for the category names for the user and group packages? I guess the only argument I can give is users and groups are system level things like other categories that start with sys-, so it feels like a good fit to me. William signat

[gentoo-dev] Re: obsolete news items

2019-05-31 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 14 May 2019, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > There are quite a few news items that appear to be no longer relevant. > The following ones are from 2013 or earlier: > 2007-05-04-paludis-0_24 > 2009-01-04-sparc-multilib > 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 > 2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 5/9] user.eclass: Die if no free UID/GID is found

2019-05-31 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hi, Why not utilize -r or --system as per useradd(8) in order to add system users? The limits for the allocated user ids comes from /etc/login.defs. Kind Regards, Jaco On 2019/05/30 14:50, Michał Górny wrote: Signed-off-by: Michał Górny --- eclass/user.eclass | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 i

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] User and group management via dedicated packages

2019-05-31 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hi, On 2019/05/29 18:01, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 5/29/19 5:50 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote: This GLEP follows the best practice of leaving obsolete user/groups accounts intact. This guarantees that no files with stale ownership are left (e.g. on unmounted filesystems) and that the same UID/GID is n