From: The Bit Pit <thebitpit@earthlink.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: acct-user/... modifies existing user sometimes
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 14:47:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51d34968-f80e-1fb8-462c-460785a862e2@earthlink.net> (raw)
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acct-user/mythtv modifies the existing user if that user is not logged
in. Mythtv has been around for years and users have created specialized
configurations for the mythtv user. They do not like changes to the
mythtv user when upgrading.
A couple of solutions:
1)
the ebuild does not depend on acct-user/mythtv when the user already
exists. This prevents both the changing and deletion of the existing user.
What is the gentoo way to discover a preexisting user? Repoman does not
like anything I tried using egetent passwd mythtv
2) Add something to the acct-user/mythtv to (conditionally) prevent any
change if there is a preexisting user on the system. The acct-user
unmerge would also check that the user was not modified since it was
created by acct-user. This seems like a lot of work.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-14 20:47 The Bit Pit [this message]
2019-12-14 21:16 ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: acct-user/... modifies existing user sometimes Michał Górny
2019-12-14 22:02 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-12-15 23:31 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-12-16 20:43 ` The Bit Pit
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