Hi,
I've made some cleanup of the passwd and login dependencies, and
remembered this discussion.
The main change is the move of libpam-modules from Depends to Pre-Depends
for login (which is Essential).
This moves libpam-modules to a virtual Essential package, which is the
reason of this mail
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:41:01AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
I don't think but we don't want to make adduser Priority: required is
a good enough reason to add global static IDs; and passwd doesn't need
to be made Essential just because an Essential package depends on it
(Essential isn't
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:39:30PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Since libuuid1 is essential, every system will end up with a libuuid
user/group, so why not just add it to base-passwd instead of creating it
dynamically ?
In general I want to avoid almost all further creation of global static
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:33:23AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:39:30PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Since libuuid1 is essential, every system will end up with a libuuid
user/group, so why not just add it to base-passwd instead of creating it
dynamically ?
In
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:34:07AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
So, I am doing so now. Any objections if I
add a dependency on passwd for libuuid1? The aternative would be to
roll-my-own
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
the libuuid1 postinst contains:
groupadd -f -K GID_MIN=1 -K GID_MAX=999 libuuid
if ! grep -q libuuid /etc/passwd; then
useradd -d /var/lib/libuuid -K UID_MIN=1 -K UID_MAX=499 -g libuuid libuuid
fi
mkdir -p /var/lib/libuuid
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
So e2fsprogs which is Essential: yes depends on libuuid1, so
libuuid1 is effectively Essential: yes, right? So if I add a
dependency on passwd, it will effectively
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
So, I am doing so now. Any objections if I
add a dependency on passwd for libuuid1? The aternative would be to
roll-my-own useradd/adduser functionality, but that would be a real
PITA
There are
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:16:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
So e2fsprogs which is Essential: yes depends on libuuid1, so
libuuid1 is effectively Essential:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
So e2fsprogs which is Essential: yes depends on libuuid1, so
libuuid1 is effectively Essential: yes, right? So if I add a
dependency on passwd, it will effectively make passwd Essential:
yes, as well
It's not because an
Bastian Blank wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
So, I am doing so now. Any objections if I
add a dependency on passwd for libuuid1? The aternative would be to
roll-my-own useradd/adduser functionality, but that would be a real
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