[gentoo-dev] Last rites: user.eclass

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: user.eclass

[Mike Gilbert]

user.eclass has been deprecated for two years. In the gentoo repo, it
is currently only used by acct-group.eclass and acct-user.eclass, and a
patchset is currently under review remedy that [1].

Planned removal is in 30 days on 2022-11-18.

[1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/27825

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass

[Martin Vaeth]

Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> user.eclass has been deprecated for two years. In the gentoo repo, it
> is currently only used by acct-group.eclass and acct-user.eclass

It is needed for ebuilds in non-gentoo repositories which cannot
reserve a fixed number for users and groups.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass

[Mike Gilbert]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:08 PM Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> wrote:
>
> Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > user.eclass has been deprecated for two years. In the gentoo repo, it
> > is currently only used by acct-group.eclass and acct-user.eclass
>
> It is needed for ebuilds in non-gentoo repositories which cannot
> reserve a fixed number for users and groups.

Such ebuilds should be converted into acct-user and acct-group
packages instead. If you set ACCT_USER_ID=-1 or ACCT_GROUP_ID=-1, they
will pick an available UID/GID upon installation.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass

[John Helmert III]

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 07:08:44PM -0000, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > user.eclass has been deprecated for two years. In the gentoo repo, it
> > is currently only used by acct-group.eclass and acct-user.eclass
> 
> It is needed for ebuilds in non-gentoo repositories which cannot
> reserve a fixed number for users and groups.

Can't you import it into any overlay that needs it? Why not use
acct-{user,group} anyway?

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass

[Martin Vaeth]

Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:08 PM Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> wrote:
>>
>> Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> > user.eclass [...]
>>
>> It is needed for ebuilds in non-gentoo repositories which cannot
>> reserve a fixed number for users and groups.
>
> If you set ACCT_USER_ID=-1 or ACCT_GROUP_ID=-1, they
> will pick an available UID/GID upon installation.

I was not aware of that.
Indeed, it was probably added after I looked at the documentation last time:
https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo/commit/
c871b87b56208684b0a1fedeaf24fe10943748e2

Sorry for the noise.