Re: [gentoo-dev] Use GLEP27!

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

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On 12/15/15 10:08 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2015 15:33, Michał Górny wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:19:36 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On 15 Dec 2015 07:28, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote: 
>>>>  
>>>>> On 14 Dec 2015 21:22, Ulrich Mueller wrote: 
>>>>>> The spec seems incomplete. I cannot find a description of the
user and
>>>>>> group files' format. (But in fact, there is a standard format which
>>>>>> suggests itself, namely that of the passwd(5) and group(5) files.) 
>>>>  
>>>>> i recall going with xml at the time, but i can't find reference to
it. 
>>>>
>>>> So the package manager would have to parse XML? We have tried to avoid
>>>> that, so far. 
>>>
>>> not entirely accurate considering we have metadata.xml
>>
>> Not entirely accurate considering the contents of metadata.xml are not
>> necessary to build and install packages.
>
> read the context.  your statement is fairly obvious.
> -mike
i looked through portage code and we do have xml parsing sprinkled
throughout, mostly in repoman for obvious reasons.  why are we trying to
avoid xml?  to be honest i don't have strong feelings about either the
flat file (a la /etc/passwd) or xml.

i'm interested in this because the hardened-sources kernel does make use
of some special uid/gids.  gengor pointed me to glep 27 and suggested
that i implement it but i wasn't that interested.  still, it would clean
up the hardened.

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