* [gentoo-dev] Last rites: user.eclass
@ 2022-10-19 16:36 Mike Gilbert
2022-10-19 19:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
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From: Mike Gilbert @ 2022-10-19 16:36 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev-announce; +Cc: gentoo-dev
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
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* [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass
2022-10-19 16:36 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: user.eclass Mike Gilbert
@ 2022-10-19 19:08 ` Martin Vaeth
2022-10-19 19:15 ` Mike Gilbert
2022-10-19 19:15 ` John Helmert III
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From: Martin Vaeth @ 2022-10-19 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass
2022-10-19 19:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
@ 2022-10-19 19:15 ` Mike Gilbert
2022-10-20 6:21 ` Martin Vaeth
2022-10-19 19:15 ` John Helmert III
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From: Mike Gilbert @ 2022-10-19 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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.
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* [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass
2022-10-19 19:15 ` Mike Gilbert
@ 2022-10-20 6:21 ` Martin Vaeth
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From: Martin Vaeth @ 2022-10-20 6:21 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass
2022-10-19 19:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
2022-10-19 19:15 ` Mike Gilbert
@ 2022-10-19 19:15 ` John Helmert III
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From: John Helmert III @ 2022-10-19 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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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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