On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 09:10:13AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > IMO this is ugly and unfortunate. > The design around sysusers expects a model where files are unpacked > and *then* scripts are run. RPM doesn't work that way, which makes all > of this fall apart. In the ideal case, we could generate preinstall > scriptlets for this stuff from detected sysusers files on the fly, but > there's currently no way to do that. So.... not helping _currently_, but could we make rpm itself handle this in a different way: stuff the systemd-sysusers files into metadata available before anything is installed? > A more practical way to work around this is to always subpackage out > sysusers and use dependencies to guarantee that it's installed before > the package itself is. This would require the systemd file trigger to Ugggghhhhhh. That's practical but gross, unless there's some kind of macro/automation for the subpackage. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
