On Mon, 28.04.14 15:32, Colin Walters (walters@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >For the fedora-atomic work, the only not-in-Fedora package is > >shadow-utils because it requires a patch, that still lives in my > >walters/rpm-ostree COPR. > > I attempted to capture some of this discussion here: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729118 > > If anyone has more thoughts/ideas please feel free to follow up > here, and I can update the bug, or comment on the bug directly. In the general case, system users cannot be defined in /var, since we allow /var to be mounted late. Defining essential users in /var also has the problem that they are lost when the same /usr is used to boot a large number of instances with a disjunct /var each time. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
