From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DFA015800A for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 969DAE08FB; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59F8FE08E2 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:05:12 +0200 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: obsolete acct-* packages Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <9626e2f9-5f57-e061-b3ba-1c1fa95cb868@gentoo.org> <87sf9m9ta5.fsf@gentoo.org> <01b3b14c8a4fdc3df001bdd28eccce60726d68e1.camel@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qUMIHVXEAYiz04B4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.10 (Darwin 22.5.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Archives-Salt: 77089e5c-3162-429d-850f-b220a44a2173 X-Archives-Hash: 5d5c8aaee52c44fcd603475d7fb120c5 --qUMIHVXEAYiz04B4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 18-07-2023 11:42:39 +0300, =D0=97=D1=83=D1=80=D0=B0=D0=B1 =D0=9A=D0=B2= =D0=B0=D1=87=D0=B0=D0=B4=D0=B7=D0=B5 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 whi= le > 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 --=20 Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level --qUMIHVXEAYiz04B4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEELUvHd/Gtp7LaU1vuzpXahU5EQpMFAmS2VcgACgkQzpXahU5E QpNiWgf/d3qLrtVKBivRlwNZ1EhUYHREhx5mWHLFZMszZNkZrBToT1e2D2CMWmUl sDvIDfdwXudbaoxyDZv3oK3ODg763e2XpYAU51CtrxBVjeA+69UgPifz6/G2mN8/ HPJ7HsKWqxcBhRqGoMyRxJFo9V9c9bkwJGS7pLATOEUH5VPQ717Qm07gxGYqbCML s1TM/eBpDKatJFiO3YS54MuVS44WhonTzDIIEanQF0FLanhOekCJVVHeVv48xDXn Z44jbqmbmVj4yuVLyCNRt/3lwZxEIEYkIksy+gcaI/MKe1eECOQ5t9mGd8kmPWeg R2BdojWX8ms2Sc58tTqKuq5j6oSr4A== =M7YY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qUMIHVXEAYiz04B4--