[gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

[gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

[William Hubbs]

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All,

as I recall I was one of the folks who suggested that uid-gid.txt should
go in the api repository, but after thinking about it more and seeing it
in practice, I see the error of my ways on this. ;-)

Imo a better fit is the metadata directory in the ebuild repository.
That way you can add users/groups along with the acct-* packages that
install them.

Thoughts?

William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, William Hubbs wrote:

> as I recall I was one of the folks who suggested that uid-gid.txt should
> go in the api repository, but after thinking about it more and seeing it
> in practice, I see the error of my ways on this. ;-)

> Imo a better fit is the metadata directory in the ebuild repository.
> That way you can add users/groups along with the acct-* packages that
> install them.

> Thoughts?

One (maybe not very strong) argument was that uid-gid.txt also documents
historical assignments, which doesn't belong in the tree.

Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 1/20/20 11:57 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> 
> Imo a better fit is the metadata directory in the ebuild repository.
> That way you can add users/groups along with the acct-* packages that
> install them.
What benefit is there to syncing that file to everyone's machines?

Re: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

[Joonas Niilola]

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On 1/20/20 6:57 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> as I recall I was one of the folks who suggested that uid-gid.txt should
> go in the api repository, but after thinking about it more and seeing it
> in practice, I see the error of my ways on this. ;-)

What's wrong with it?


>
> Imo a better fit is the metadata directory in the ebuild repository.
> That way you can add users/groups along with the acct-* packages that
> install them.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> William

I think it'd be too easy to 'queue' up work, then ignore conflicts with
UID+GID but push your accts anyway. That's the only downside I came up
with, I don't really mind either way where it is.


-- juippis



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Re: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

[William Hubbs]

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On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 12:56:48PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 1/20/20 11:57 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > 
> > Imo a better fit is the metadata directory in the ebuild repository.
> > That way you can add users/groups along with the acct-* packages that
> > install them.
> What benefit is there to syncing that file to everyone's machines?

I don't see this as a concern because the size of the file is
negligible compared to the tree.

William


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