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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:18:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD8D991.4060704@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD8B910.3090606@gentoo.org>

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On 6/13/2012 12:00 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> Hey all - I'd like to propose that enewuser forces updates to a user's
> home dir and shell whenever it is called, so that if this changes with
> new versions of an ebuild it is dealt with automatically rather than
> having to modify them in pkg_postinst/pkg_setup directly.
> 

Can you give an example of a case where modifying the home directory
and/or shell is necessary? I don't really understand how this is useful.

Also, grobian raised a good point in that the sysadmin may have changed
it manually. It might be better to ewarn and make the user deal with it.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-13 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-13 16:00 [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 17:19 ` Michał Górny
2012-06-13 17:21   ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 18:45     ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 18:47       ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 18:09 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-06-13 18:32   ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 18:56     ` Mike Gilbert
2012-06-13 19:04     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-06-13 19:11       ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 19:14         ` Mike Frysinger
2012-06-13 19:35           ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: esethome Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-13 20:51             ` Mike Frysinger
2012-06-15 13:16               ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-15 13:27               ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-15 13:35                 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-06-15 13:39                   ` Fabian Groffen
2012-06-15 13:41                   ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-15 13:53                     ` Fabian Groffen
2012-06-15 14:05                       ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-15 14:23                         ` Mike Gilbert
2012-06-15 14:34                           ` Peter Stuge
2012-06-13 18:18 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2012-06-13 18:22   ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home Samuli Suominen
2012-06-13 18:27   ` Ian Stakenvicius

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