On June 11, 2018 3:25:35 PM GMT+05:30, Dmitry Smirnov <only...@debian.org> wrote: >On Monday, 11 June 2018 6:52:59 PM AEST Pirate Praveen wrote: >> It should check the username from debconf db already set by gitlab >and >> also ask debconf question if not set already. > >It should not fail to install on the box without gitlab. It should >install >successfully even if gitlab was never installed.
I think the solution is to have a gitlab-common package that will handle the user creation with both gitlab and gitaly depending on it. >IMHO this is not much value in debconf prompt for user name... It may >be nice >but perhaps would be excessive in most cases. > >I mean, "gitlab" user name is much like "www-data". Maybe it would be >best >not to alter it through debconf to avoid significant maintenance >overhead for >little value. It is significant because it forms the ssh URL and visible to every user of the service. g...@domain.tld is preferred by many whereas default is git...@domain.tld >How are you going to alter .service file? Are you sure it is worth the >trouble? Just how we did it for gitlab. > >> postrm should not remove the user if gitlab package is still present. > >I would only implement this so purge wouldn't remove "gitlab" user when > >gitlab is installed. gitlab-common as explained above can fix this. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Pkg-go-maintainers mailing list Pkg-go-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-go-maintainers
