[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2017-01-29 23:59 UTC

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 01/29/2017 06:34 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > Our syntax for package names is more restrictive than what POSIX > allows for a portable user name. Therefore, there could be user names > that are not representable. Have you checked if all user and group > names currently in use (at least in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

> On Sun, 29 Jan 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > I put together a draft of the "fixed UIDs with random fallback" model: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Mjo/GLEP:User_packages > If we decide to fix UID/GID management, I think it would be a lot > easier to implement that draft than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 01/29/2017 05:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Good catch with symlinks. > I don't see the point about hardlinks, they are just files with 2 > dentries. When find gets to the second one it's already changed, so no > problem. > Any user can create a hard link in its home directory to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 30/01/2017 00:20, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/29/2017 05:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Sure it can be done, just don't chown -R ~user. DO it the VERY >> long way round, file by file. Say you changed user "awesome" uid 300 to 400: >> >> find / -uid 300 -exec chown awesome {} \+ >> > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 01/29/2017 05:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Sure it can be done, just don't chown -R ~user. DO it the VERY > long way round, file by file. Say you changed user "awesome" uid 300 to 400: > > find / -uid 300 -exec chown awesome {} \+ > That will find symlinks created by UID 300, and chown

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 01/27/2017 12:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > We approved GLEP 27 (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:27) in 2004 but > never implemented it. I'm wondering what are the explicit requirements > that we have for user and group management? > > What I'm really wondering is, instead of the proposal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 29/01/2017 19:05, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/29/2017 03:26 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone think of an upgrade path for fixed UIDs? That issue aside, I >>> may have convinced myself that fixed UIDs are better. >> >> The general process I would recommend is that if the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving repoman checking, better idea (add arch.desc file)

> > Proposal No 2: > > * Leave profiles.desc unmodified > > * Introduce a new file arch.desc, which contains the "stability > > status" of an > > arch; > > > > Syntax: 2 columns, > > # arch status > > amd64 stable > > mipstesting > > sh unstable > > > > The meaning of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving repoman checking, better idea (add arch.desc file)

Am Montag, 30. Januar 2017, 09:29:06 CET schrieb Kent Fredric: > --- >amd64 keywords=strict checkdeps=stable enforcedeps=stable >mips keywords=mixed checkdeps=stable enforcedeps=dev >m68k keywords=mixed checkdeps=expenforcedeps=exp > --- The problem with this is that (already

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving repoman checking, better idea (add arch.desc file)

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 14:08:05 -0500 james wrote: > I do > not have access to Kent's posting so perhaps a reference to Kent's ideas? Happened on IRC, not on any ML ( though I copied a basic copy of it in another thread ) But I'm not going to reiterate it here due to its

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xorg-2.eclass: Use --disable-selective-werror.

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/416069 --- eclass/xorg-2.eclass | 6 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/eclass/xorg-2.eclass b/eclass/xorg-2.eclass index b7c7ba2..fabad09 100644 --- a/eclass/xorg-2.eclass +++ b/eclass/xorg-2.eclass @@ -468,8 +468,14 @@ xorg-2_src_configure() {

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xorg-2.eclass: Use --disable-selective-werror.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:42:16 -0800 > Matt Turner wrote: > >> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/416069 >> --- >> eclass/xorg-2.eclass | 5 + >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xorg-2.eclass: Use --disable-selective-werror.

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:42:16 -0800 Matt Turner wrote: > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/416069 > --- > eclass/xorg-2.eclass | 5 + > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/eclass/xorg-2.eclass b/eclass/xorg-2.eclass > index b7c7ba2..7d681f2 100644 > ---

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] llvm.eclass: An eclass to handle dependencies on slotted LLVM

--- eclass/llvm.eclass | 98 ++ 1 file changed, 98 insertions(+) create mode 100644 eclass/llvm.eclass diff --git a/eclass/llvm.eclass b/eclass/llvm.eclass new file mode 100644 index ..a0ce616d5b92 --- /dev/null +++

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xorg-2.eclass: Use --disable-selective-werror.

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/416069 --- eclass/xorg-2.eclass | 5 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/eclass/xorg-2.eclass b/eclass/xorg-2.eclass index b7c7ba2..7d681f2 100644 --- a/eclass/xorg-2.eclass +++ b/eclass/xorg-2.eclass @@ -468,6 +468,11 @@ xorg-2_src_configure() {

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 01/29/2017 12:22 PM, A. Wilcox wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 29/01/17 11:05, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/29/2017 03:26 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Can anyone think of an upgrade path for fixed UIDs? That issue aside, I may have convinced myself that fixed UIDs

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] test_sync_local: add test for auto-sync set to 'no'

--- pym/portage/tests/sync/test_sync_local.py | 12 ++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pym/portage/tests/sync/test_sync_local.py b/pym/portage/tests/sync/test_sync_local.py index bec2e6a..1d38562 100644 --- a/pym/portage/tests/sync/test_sync_local.py +++

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving repoman checking, better idea (add arch.desc file)

On 01/29/2017 10:06 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: So I've been talking to kent\n and the conclusion is that our ideas basically do and achieve the same, with a slightly different approach. (I still like mine better though. :) However one valid point that came up in discussions is - whether an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving repoman checking, better idea (add arch.desc file)

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 18:20:34 +0200 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Might want a "broken" (with maybe a better name) for some of these. I > bet the ~arch of some of these is broken too, and no-one to respond to > keyword requests, just happens when it happens. > arm64 and mips are in that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:16:50 -0600 "A. Wilcox" wrote: > On 28/01/17 13:32, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:13:53 -0600 "A. Wilcox" > > wrote: > > > >> Having a file that user.eclass would use to map new users/groups > >> to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving repoman checking, better idea (add arch.desc file)

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 18:20:34 +0200 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Maybe declare from the start that any extra columns should be silently > ignored in implementations from start, as to be able to safely add more > columns in the future without breaking backwards compatibility. Maybe not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 29/01/17 11:05, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/29/2017 03:26 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone think of an upgrade path for fixed UIDs? That issue >>> aside, I may have convinced myself that fixed UIDs are better. >> >> The general

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 01/29/2017 05:03 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> [...] sys-user/echo [...] > > [Replying to a random message in this thread, as I have some backlog.] > > Users and groups aren't packages, so IMHO packages and *DEPEND > variables shouldn't be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 28/01/17 13:32, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:13:53 -0600 "A. Wilcox" > wrote: > >> Having a file that user.eclass would use to map new users/groups >> to IDs would be extremely beneficial to me. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 01/29/2017 03:26 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Can anyone think of an upgrade path for fixed UIDs? That issue aside, I >> may have convinced myself that fixed UIDs are better. > > The general process I would recommend is that if the ebuild finds the user > already exists, leave it, it's UID

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving repoman checking, better idea (add arch.desc file)

Ühel kenal päeval, P, 29.01.2017 kell 16:06, kirjutas Andreas K. Huettel: > However one valid point that came up in discussions is - whether an > arch  > supports stable keywords is a per-arch setting, not a per-profile > setting. So  > we can actually make things much easier (and the transition

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving repoman checking, better idea (add arch.desc file)

So I've been talking to kent\n and the conclusion is that our ideas basically do and achieve the same, with a slightly different approach. (I still like mine better though. :) However one valid point that came up in discussions is - whether an arch supports stable keywords is a per-arch

Re: [gentoo-dev] REQUIRED_USE, global USE flags, user-friendliness...

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:51:27 -0500 NP-Hardass wrote: > On 01/27/2017 12:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Forked from the gdbm/berkdb thread, wall of text ensues... > > > > > > On 01/27/2017 03:32 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > >> > >> You mention REQUIRED_USE should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:03:25 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > [...] sys-user/echo [...] > > [Replying to a random message in this thread, as I have some backlog.] > > Users and groups aren't packages, so IMHO packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > [...] sys-user/echo [...] [Replying to a random message in this thread, as I have some backlog.] Users and groups aren't packages, so IMHO packages and *DEPEND variables shouldn't be abused for things like that. This has been discussed in bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On 29/01/2017 03:56, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/27/2017 11:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> It isn't like inconsistent UIDs are the end of the world. However, >> IMO it still makes sense to at least try to standardize such things. >> Really, if you have a package always installing the same