Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving UID/GID assignments to api.gentoo.org

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 15:49 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:29:50PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Some time ago William asked me to move UID/GID assignments from wiki [1]
> > to something more accessible.  I've finally gotten around to draft
> > something, and I'd like to hear your comments about it.  The idea is to
> > keep a whitespace-separated record format file in api.gentoo.org repo.
> > 
> > This is mostly inspired by Fedora's format, specifically the ability to
> > specify both UID and GID for matching user/group on the same line.
> > I've also decided not to attempt to specify disjoint Linux and FreeBSD
> > users/groups on a single line.  Instead, they are specified separately
> > and defined by providers (as suggested by Ulrich).
> > 
> > Sample, along with big comment explaining the file format, below.
> 
> I'm not sure how I feel about whitespace delimiters for this. withno
> further specification, it would make these two lines completely valid:
> 
> root 0 0 baselayout
> bin 1				1				baselayout					some notes here
>  
>  I propose using a colon like we do in /etc/passwd:
> 
>  root:0:0:baselayout:
>  bin:1:1:baselayout:some notes go here
> 
>  Thoughts?
> 

Worksforme.  Do we allow extra whitespace in fields where it doesn't
matter for alignment?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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