On 12/14/15 3:22 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > Dnia 13 grudnia 2015 21:41:02 CET, "Robin H. Johnson" > <robb...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): >>On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 09:03:51PM +0300, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> We trying to use ldap for users @work, many of our workstations >>running >>> binary gentoo based distro called Calculate linux. However if we >>wanna >>> have wide use of ldap there is a need for determenistic system group >>> gids names and user uids. >>> >>> Many ebuilds in tree uses enewgroup and enewuser with -1 (aka next >>> available parameter)[1]. However it will be much better to set distro >> >>> wide deterministic uid and gid for system service name. So for >>example >>> ldap users may have determenistic groups like video, audio, plugdev, >>> etc.. >>GLEP27 was approved for this, however it is barely used. >> >>Convert the rest of the tree to use it, and then you'll be done, aside >>from the existing mess on user systems. > > As far as I can see, this GLEP predates EAPI and does not meet modern > standards. It needs to be updated or killed with fire. > > For a start, relation to EAPI needs to be defined. This will likely > require both profiles and ebuilds to use the new EAPI. > > Also, the contents of 'backwards compatibility' section are > unacceptable. But that's probably going to be covered by EAPI. > > The spec itself is hard to follow, though the idea seems simple. It > makes me wonder if we aren't missing something important there. > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Don't kill it. The best way forward would be to update it. -- Doug Goldstein
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