What is acct-user?

[its1louder]

Trying to update gpsd, usually moving over the latest gentoo ebuild accomplishes this, but now its trying to find acct-user.  My quick search on the subject suggests this is like the virtual ebuilds.  Not sure what the funtoo policy is on this stuff.  

[its1louder]

seems related, I guess people are thinking about this since last year, first I've seen of it though 

https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-7168

 

 

[slavka]

In case you're still wondering what it is and what it's trying to accomplish, take a look at this page:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Categories_acct-group_and_acct-user

As for funtoo policies, afaik this practice has not been adopted here (yet?), so every ebuild does its own user-group management. I think a good example of this is the www-servers/lighttpd ebuild.

Edited March 8, 2021 by slavka

[cardinal]

Reverse the changes gentoo made in the gpsd-3.20.ebuild and gpsd-999.ebuild for acct-user/gpsd: migrating from user.eclass

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/sci-geosciences/gpsd?id=52d0dd930929ebc49804bd4a8ecfe674e8cff3cc

The other alternative is to add the acct-user.eclass and acct-user/gpsd/gpsd-0-r1.ebuild to the overlay.

 

[its1louder]

I guess I may try adding the eclass directory to my local overlay and put in the accnt and user eclasses, that seems like the most manageable choice long term.  But I want to think about all the consequences esp.  If funtoo decides to go a different direction.  I tried upgrading hplip too and it wants an lp user so this is going to start becoming an issue.  

 

 

[lego12239]

On 3/8/2021 at 9:38 PM, slavka said:

In case you're still wondering what it is and what it's trying to accomplish, take a look at this page:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Categories_acct-group_and_acct-user

Even after reading this, I still wonder why gentoo chose such a weird way of solving this problem :-D.