On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:18:09PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > 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 That's everyday's Fedora setup, the first ever user you create already modifies these, and how many users are really creating all users in LDAP/NIS, I think in the Fedora world most are still on nss file switch, so passwd/group are almost always user modified on each upgrade. We wouldn't change anything in today's procedures, we're just writing them down. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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