* [gentoo-dev] RFC: acct-user/... modifies existing user sometimes
@ 2019-12-14 20:47 99% The Bit Pit
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From: The Bit Pit @ 2019-12-14 20:47 UTC (permalink / 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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