On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:28 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <
zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 05:16:36PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "ZJ" == Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> writes:
> >
> > ZJ> - various transfiletriggers have been ported from Mageia, for the
> > ZJ> udev hwdb and rules, the journal catalog, sysctl.d, binfmt.d,
> > ZJ> sysusers.d, and tmpfiles.d. This means that for many packages,
> > ZJ> which do not need those rules to be applied immediately,
> > ZJ> scriptlets can be totally removed.
> >
> > So, could you possibly give the packaging committee a heads up as soon
> > as possible? Preferably like a few days ago?
> >
> > ZJ> - somewhat independently, systemd-sysusers has been beefed up so it
> > ZJ> is possible to use it to create system users before any files are
> > ZJ> installed on disk, but honouring admin overrides. In short, we now
> > ZJ> recommend the following invocation to create users for an rpm
> > ZJ> which contains files owned by those users:
> >
> > ZJ> %sysusers_create_package %{name} %SOURCEN
> >
> > But the packaging guidelines _don't_ recommend that. And they won't
> > until someone gives us a heads up. Please don't ask folks to change
> > their packages before you've even given the packaging committee a chance
> > to change the guidelines.
>
> Hi,
>
> I was speaking with my upstream hat on, not trying to suggest
> immediate changes to packaging in Fedora. I'm aware the guidelines
> recommend getent/useradd calls right now. There are some idea to change
> this, but my mail wasn't supposed to start that process. I hope this
> will be discussed for F29, in due time.
>
> Sorry, I should have written this like "If you were to use
> systemd-sysusers to create users for an rpm, we would recommend ...".
>
> Zbyszek
Sorry about that, Tibbs. I’ve got it on my TODO list to put together a
guidelines proposal this week. To all reading: this is *not* yet the
recommended approach and will not be until and unless FPC approves new
guidelines.
>
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