On Saturday 12 May 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: > 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 [...] > We wouldn't change anything in today's procedures, we're just writing > them down. Note that your phrasing above mentions contacting the maintainer of the setup package. This implies to me as if adding users/groups to the distro setup package would be a possibility. That's certainly not today's procedure - there has been no user additions to /etc/passwd since RHL 6.2 (maybe even earlier?), and only the "lock" group was added to /etc/group in 7.2, otherwise no new groups in it since RHL 6.2 either. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
