Re: Packaging guidelines - dynamic allocation of users and groups
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 07:38:25PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 7:26 PM Michal Schorm
<mschorm(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:54 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > Yeah, there are no guidelines for this case because it didn't really
> > come up before. I think this case can be used to figure out the best
> > way to do this and then the guidelines can be informed by the solution.
>
> Okay. I don't mind being a pioneer.
> I asked to avoid reinventing the wheel.
>
I think this is actually going to be pretty simple: just have a
package "system-user-mysql" that just installs the file and be done
with it.
You can then have the database packages "Requires(pre): (user(mysql) and
group(mysql))" and things should just work.
That is exactly what the first message in the thread was proposing ;)
Zbyszek