Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: obsolete acct-* packages

["Зураб Квачадзе" <zurabid2016@gmail.com>]

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Well, this configuration is reasonable, I am for the change

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 11:55 Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 18/07/2023 10.42, Зураб Квачадзе wrote:
> > How do we handle this case, then.
> > Imagine we have a leaf package acct-user/foo, which has a reserved UID
> > of 123. It gets last rited and its entry is removed from uid-gid.txt.
>
> Nobody is proposing that the uid-gid.txt entry is removed. Ideally, it
> would be marked as 'historical', together with the date it went historical.
>
>
> > After a while appears a new package acct-user/bar, which takes the 123
> > UID. Then a user, say Bob, updates their system, which haven't been
> > updated for some time. What if they still have acct-user/foo, when >
> acct-user/bar with the same UID is installed?
>
> If a UID/GID is in use, then acct-*.eclass will find the next suitable
> ID (unless, e.g. ACCT_USER_ENFORCE_ID is set, we is usually not the case).
>
> - Flow
>

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