From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: obsolete acct-* packages
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:05:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZLZVyDuhwMbFBNLA@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADKhjbO3s-B4cGNA5135sZixNDNK1on=mB63x7MVQfKrqajWMg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 18-07-2023 11:42:39 +0300, 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. 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? Should we even care about such cases?
IMO we should, thus 123 should not be removed from uid-gid.txt, and instead
be marked as reserved or something with a date.
Thanks,
Fabian
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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-18 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-17 19:43 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: obsolete acct-* packages Florian Schmaus
2023-07-17 20:21 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] " Matt Turner
2023-07-17 20:27 ` Sam James
2023-07-17 21:07 ` Mike Gilbert
2023-07-18 6:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-18 8:22 ` Pacho Ramos
2023-07-18 8:42 ` Зураб Квачадзе
2023-07-18 8:54 ` Florian Schmaus
2023-07-18 8:59 ` Зураб Квачадзе
2023-07-18 9:05 ` Fabian Groffen [this message]
2023-07-18 9:56 ` Sam James
2023-07-18 11:58 ` Florian Schmaus
2023-07-18 13:08 ` Sam James
2023-07-18 13:15 ` Sam James
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