Hello, On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 06:34:01PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 27.06.2017 um 09:34 schrieb Niels Thykier: > > After this, we need something other than triggers. Triggers are great > > for regenerating global caches but they are not good at delegating > > targeted functionality out like: > > > > * This package needs user X to be created dynamically with home set > > to H with login shell S. > > systemd provides a facility called systemd-sysusers which allows to > describe system user accounts declaratively. Maybe we could leverage that. > > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-sysusers.html
Indeed, and there is dh_sysuser already in the archive. > > * This package wants to enable and start service Y, but obviously first > > after creating user X (which the service runs as) > > Related to that, there is systemd-preset > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.preset.html > > If that would work for Debian is unclear to me. (Yet) another attempt at declarative configuration is propellor.[1] It has a lot of good ideas relevant to initial package configuration.[2] [1] https://propellor.branchable.com/ [2] http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/propellor_is_d-i_2.0/ -- Sean Whitton
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