On Wednesday 24 May 2017, Bernhard Voelker wrote:

On 05/23/2017 05:35 PM, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:

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That is indeed wanted - the list of users has constantly been growing and for many users/groups, it is/was not clear what requires them.

While reducing (or better saying: letting the packages choose) is good for the final product, how could we get some of them back on OBS?

Some tests rely on having a 2nd user - e.g. the coreutils-testsuite would not have to SKIP a couple of tests. (BTW: it'd be great if abuild could be member of a second group for some of these tests).

... [ 102s] basic.sh: skipped test: requires membership in two groups [ 102s] SKIP: tests/chgrp/basic.sh ... [ 119s] default-no-deref.sh: skipped test: requires membership in two groups [ 119s] SKIP: tests/chgrp/default-no-deref.sh [ 119s] deref.sh: skipped test: requires membership in two groups [ 119s] SKIP: tests/chgrp/deref.sh [ 119s] no-x.sh: skipped test: requires membership in two groups [ 119s] SKIP: tests/chgrp/no-x.sh [ 119s] posix-H.sh: skipped test: requires membership in two groups [ 119s] SKIP: tests/chgrp/posix-H.sh [ 119s] recurse.sh: skipped test: requires membership in two groups [ 119s] SKIP: tests/chgrp/recurse.sh ... [ 286s] acl.sh: skipped test: This test requires a local user named bin. [ 286s] SKIP: tests/cp/acl.sh ... [ 286s] existing-perm-race.sh: skipped test: requires membership in two groups [ 286s] SKIP: tests/cp/existing-perm-race.sh ... [ 304s] acl.sh: skipped test: This test requires a local user named bin. [ 304s] SKIP: tests/mv/acl.sh ... [ 332s] # TOTAL: 563 [ 332s] # PASS: 496 [ 332s] # SKIP: 67

Idea: could we create/have some packages doing such modifications in the build environment via BuildRequires, but which are never shipped to regular systems? ... actually like the abuild user?

You can add +%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1320 +BuildRequires: user(nobody) +%endif However it's just annoying that we have to do that and endusers of the distro also have to do that. Probably a user would just use useradd to create the missing user manually with random id and group, conflicting to the definitions of system-user-nobody's /usr/lib/sysusers.d/system-user-nobody.conf So the goal to clean-up and well-define our system users leads to more randomization. I still see no benefit of not providing "daemon" and "nobody" always in opposite to basically any other existing Linux distro. cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org