On 05/18/2016 01:21 PM, James Hogarth wrote:

However MongoDB uses only UID staticaly. It is not
> using preallocated GID - http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mongodb.git/tree/mongodb.spec#n327
>
> So I would like to ask how to fix this?
> Is is OK to simply fix this in Fedora master? In current situation GID
> differs on every machine, so the wont be any breaking change for users
> I think (it is using 'getent group mongodb || ...'). Or may there be
> some problem with this?
>
>

The relevant guidelines covering this are here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups

I think Marek is suggesting changing the groupadd command to use specific UID (184) for new installs.

Are you quoting the policy because it prohibits changing UID/GIDs? Are you concerned with updates on existing systems?

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