On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:19:42 +0100 Manuel Rüger <mr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 23.11.2016 10:08, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:44:33 +0100 > > Manuel Rüger <mr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> I have not started to write it, but I am considering it and rather want > >> to gather feedback on my idea first. > >> I am aware that https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:27 exists, but as of > >> right now I haven't seen anyone working on it. The goal of this eclass > >> is to improve user/group handling without touching the PMS. > >> > >> tl;dr: Userkit eclass will improve the user handling by externalizing > >> the configuration to variables that can be set from outside of the ebuild. > >> > >> Userkit.eclass will inherit user.eclass and require bash arrays > >> USERKIT_USER and USERKIT_GROUP for configuration. > >> I will export a pkg_setup with the corresponding setup (basically > >> calling enewuser and enewgroup). It will provide get_user, get_uid, > >> get_group, get_gid and get_home functions. > >> This would allow to do something like "fowners $(get_user):$(get_group) > >> foo". > >> > >> If ${CATEGORY}-${PN}_user and ${CATEGORY}-${PN}_group are set, these > >> will replace the contents of USERKIT_USER and USERKIT_GROUP, allowing > >> the user to fully define everything user/group related. > > > > How does that all map to multiple users/groups? How does that map to > > USE-conditional users/groups? How does that map to users/groups shared > > between multiple packages? > > > simply via calling the function conditional in pkg_setup > My goal is not to focus on handling multiple users/groups. Synchronizing > settings between multiple packages is a task of the user, it doesn't > make any sense to make guesses there. People will come up with wonderful > symlinked solutions. > > Besides, this sounds a lot like games.eclass... will developers be > > required to patch upstream software now to force support for using > > custom users/groups? > I am not aware of any patches that are required. What I care about is > having predictable uid/gid and home for everything I can configure via > an ebuild. Wait a minute. So you're talking about configuring UID/GID (as in numbers) and not changing usernames? That's the problem when you jump straight to solutions and don't state the problem -- nobody knows what you're really up to. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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