On 06/13/2012 09:18 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On 6/13/2012 12:00 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
Hey all - I'd like to propose that enewuser forces updates to a user's
home dir and shell whenever it is called, so that if this changes with
new versions of an ebuild it is dealt with automatically rather than
having to modify them in pkg_postinst/pkg_setup directly.
Can you give an example of a case where modifying the home directory
and/or shell is necessary? I don't really understand how this is useful.
package-1.2.3.ebuild creates user foobard with group foobard and sets
home to /dev/null
bug gets filed against package-1.2.3.ebuild that foobard needs a home or
it won't execute itself, and the maintainer changes the home to be
/var/lib/foobard in package-1.2.3-r1.ebuild
no change happens to passwd and the package continues to fail to run at all
like http://bugs.gentoo.org/420269
sed -i -e '/^foobard/s:/dev/null:/var/lib/foobard' "${ROOT}"/etc/passwd
in pkg_postinst() doesn't seem very nice solution :/
Also, grobian raised a good point in that the sysadmin may have changed
it manually. It might be better to ewarn and make the user deal with it.
i'd prefer argument to force the update, when the problem hits something
that 99,98% of users have installed, like sys-auth/polkit, an ewarn is
not adequate
- Samuli
