On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Without reading whole thread and participating in yet another flame war Apologies, didn't mean to taunt peoplle into another flamefest -- thanks for your kind reply. I will use a high uid range as the base if I do use this. However, it seems that my situation is one where I end up with an ordering if I try to use your package. Brief description follows My project - OLPC's School Server - is a Fedora spin that adds a few packages with custom daemons, provides a "xs-config" package that makes a mess of /etc (ahem!, applies a custom configuration), and has a metapackage to pull it all together. Having stable, predictable uids/gids is *extremely* valuable as we want maximum consistency between systems -- the target ratio is of a small sysadmin team (5 to 12) managing thousands of servers. We could hardcode the uid/gids, but we want to work with Fedora to make our packages mainstream as much as possible. So we tend to package things "vanilla" and do our wonky configuration in a separate package. So I would need to have an "config" package that - depends on fedora-usermgmt fedora-usermgmt-shadowutils - is guaranteed to install _before_ any other package that depends on fedora-usermgmt the "main" xs-config package gets installed late because it overwrites configurations, and so it depends on everything. Is there a way to force this early-dependency? In case you are wondering, this gets installed via anaconda unattended and or via yum update. I'm wary of anaconda hacks that a yum install / yum update won't obey. It's a bit of circular logic. Can I package my own "fedora-usermgmt-yesjustdoit" version of the -shadowutils with metadata that makes it win over the "-dontreallydoanything" package? cheers, martin -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
