Subject: Assigning unique system uid/gid for new ebuild
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2003-05-30 14:03:52 GMT (5 years, 13 weeks, 4 hours and 11 minutes ago)
While writing an ebuild for nullmailer I would like to know how to determine an unique uid/gid (nullmail/nullmail) which I need in the script if I don't want to patch the Makefile. Grepping through other ebuild's I saw that there are several packages which also use useradd/groupadd with a given id (i.e. postgres=70). Who assigns these ids used in several other ebuild's where system users are needed? How can I prevent id collisions without grepping through other ebuild-files? Or should I omit defining sys-users with a fixed id given? TIA, Martin -- gentoo-dev <at> gentoo.org mailing list