On 18 May 2016 17:28, "Marek Skalický" <mskalick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am packaging MongoDB. It a database so it stores files and need
> reserved UID and GID for it...
>
> Today I figured out that for more than 4 years MongoDB does not use
> reserved GID.
> In https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/setup.git/tree/uidgid#n151 UID and
> GID is reserved. However MongoDB uses only UID staticaly. It is not
> using preallocated GID - http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mongod
> b.git/tree/mongodb.spec#n327
>
> So I would like to ask how to fix this?
> Is is OK to simply fix this in Fedora master? In current situation GID
> differs on every machine, so the wont be any breaking change for users
> I think (it is using 'getent group mongodb || ...'). Or may there be
> some problem with this?
>
>
The relevant guidelines covering this are here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups
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