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
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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.