Martin Aspeli wrote:
Derek Richardson wrote:
So, is there an easy way to do it? I know I can write a recipe, but a
recipe seems heavyweight for this. It seems to me that access to these
two values should be built into buildout as implicit variables. Is
this contrary to the lightweight, pluggable design philosophy?
What's the use case here? I can't think of many good uses for something
that's going to vary depending on who's running the buildout.
The use case is that the pound (http://www.apsis.ch/pound) install is
evil. Configure takes -o (owner) and -g (group) parameters to set
ownership of the pound binary. This would be fine if leaving them blank
defaulted to the current user and group. However, it defaults to
system-specific settings, which, on my mac, is the 'www' user and 'www'
group. Unless I run my buildout as root, the build fails. Not cool.
Really, I'm only assuming that running as root would work, since I
refuse to run buildout as root. So, to test on my mac, I want to pick up
the current user and group.
I've written a recipe that, given no parameters, returns the name of the
current user and current user's group. Given a user name, it returns the
name of the specified user's group.
Secondly, buildout and at least the recipes we like to promote are
cross-platform. This may not be as easy to achieve on Windows.
Yep. So, unfortunately, I may not release this recipe.
Thirdly, users can be in multiple groups, so at least you'd need a list,
which may not lend itself so well to the standard way of using variables
in buildout.
The UNIX gid from the password database is good enough.
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