Jesse, shouldn't we describe how we create users in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines it would also make clear that maintainers shouldn't use fedora-usermgmt. Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 15 March 2007 18:04:19 Mário Gamito wrote: >> Would you be so kind to be more specific ? >> I've tried the %pre section, but it didn't create the groups and the users. >> >> The %pre section is before the %prep, right ? >> >> The make setup already needs the users and groups to exist. > > Sorry, I wasn't clear. You can't rely on creating users during the build > process, as the place you build does not always equal the place you install. > You _have_ to be able to build without creating the users. You use %pre to > create the users as %pre is executed on the host that you're installing the > package on, before the package files are put in place. %pre creates the > user, %defatter defines that the files should be owned by said user when > they're laid out on the file system. > > If the build (potentially without 'check') cannot complete without the user > being added, you may be stuck with fixing the broken make system for that > software. > > -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
