>>>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> This is kind of a strange time to run these, since then you'll end
> up with a new user and group even if the build fails or is killed.
> You'll also end up with extraneous users and groups on build
> servers. Does this user/group need to be present on the build system
> for some reason? I'd much prefer to see it in pkg_{pre,post}inst(),
> despite pkg_setup() being much more common in the tree (from a dumb
> grep/sort/uniq):
> 74 pkg_preinst() {
> 101 pkg_postinst() {
> 369 pkg_setup() {
Don't forget the various eclasses creating users and groups, which
probably account for even more ebuilds:
apache-2.eclass
games.eclass
mysql.eclass
qmail.eclass
vmware-mod.eclass
All of them call enew{user,group} from pkg_setup. (With the exception
of mysql.eclass, which for some reason calls them from both pkg_setup
and pkg_preinst.)
Ulrich
