On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:03:19PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:18:52PM +0200, Sarantis Paskalis wrote: > > Is there any recommendation for mandating/enforcing/changing etc. user > > IDs in (previously) Core packages? There are some rpm packages in the > > upcomming merge that hardcode a specific UID in the specfile to use (I > > was looking at privoxy, which hardcodes the number 73). > > Hardcoding is OK, if the user/group has made it into the official list > which is /usr/share/doc/setup-*/uidgid. In there privoxy has indeed > the uid/gid of 73. Thanks for the pointer. I didn't know its existence. One issue that arises now is whether a merge of http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry and this file (/usr/share/doc/setup-*/uidgid) is to be considered. Thanks, -- Sarantis -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
