On Friday 11 May 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> "If you think that your package really requires allocation of global
> static uids/gids (because you need to hardwire these values into the
> binaries) then contact <the maintainer of "setup"? the fpc? fesco?>
> and ask for such an allocation. Only very few packages require a
> global static uid/gid, so verify that you indeed need one before
> contacting <>".
Adding users/groups to the "setup" package in the distro is an upgrade
problem - /etc/passwd and friends will end up as *.rpmnew so something needs
to ensure that the users/groups get created by other means - and at that
point, it's not clear to me that it is a good idea to have this stuff in the
distro "setup" package any more.
> o /srv/PACKAGE: We don't want to suggest to packagers to put anything
> under /srv as this is up to the admin to specify the layout. While
> one needs to admit that this may still be controversial within
> Fedora it's safer to not mention it.
Ok, removed all explicit examples, now referring to just "data directory".
> o /usr/sbin -> %{_sbindir} just as an educational measure? (Perhaps
> even rpmlint will cry if it's hardcoded?)
Perhaps, as the shadow-utils package uses %{_sbindir} as well, changed to that
for now. Another option would be to require shadow-utils (like Bill
suggested) and use pathless useradd/groupadd.
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