On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 10:03 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > I sent the following to SpanKY a while back as my thoughts on how to > move GLEP 27 away from xml (which the portage devs would really rather > avoid). It has his tentative approval, so now I'd like to get some > general comments. GLEP 27 is a really good idea, and it would be nice > to have it implemented. > > -g2boojum- > ----- Forwarded message from Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:37:03 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i > Subject: glep 27 thoughts > > I've been thinking a bit about how to make uid/gid handling work w/o > needing xml. It seems like it ought to be simple enough to replace > the xml files with simple plain-text files which look like the > following: > > # cat groups/dovecot > gid = 97 > > # cat users/dovecot > uid = 97 > shell = /bin/false > home = /dev/null > groups = dovecot, foo, bar > gecos = Added by portage for dovecot # (normally autogenerated) > > Essentially, these files would just contain the same information as what > one would use w/ groupadd and useradd, but w/ more readable syntax. > > I'm also thinking that instead of putting these files in > portage/profiles/accounts, perhaps we should permit an "accounts" > directory in each stage of a cascading profile, thus moving the platform > logic (linux vs hurd vs *bsd vs whatever) from the user and group files > (which, in the original glep, would list info for all supported > platforms) to the cascading profiles (default-linux, default-bsd/fbsd, > etcetera). >
What about the libconf project ? Can't we still put that to use somehow (sorry, don't know the details anymore of it) to solve this issue? -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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