On Sat, 2019-12-14 at 14:47 -0600, The Bit Pit wrote: > acct-user/mythtv modifies the existing user if that user is not logged > in. Mythtv has been around for years and users have created specialized > configurations for the mythtv user. They do not like changes to the > mythtv user when upgrading. > > A couple of solutions: > > 1) > the ebuild does not depend on acct-user/mythtv when the user already > exists. This prevents both the changing and deletion of the existing user. > > What is the gentoo way to discover a preexisting user? Repoman does not > like anything I tried using egetent passwd mythtv > > 2) Add something to the acct-user/mythtv to (conditionally) prevent any > change if there is a preexisting user on the system. The acct-user > unmerge would also check that the user was not modified since it was > created by acct-user. This seems like a lot of work. >
Users are supposed to create a local acct-user/mythtv override if they want to use a custom setup. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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