Bug 15969 – add user 'distcc' to baselayout

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Zach Welch (RETIRED) 2003-02-18 19:45:13 UTC]

Since portage now supports distcc as a FEATURE and distccd itself is moving to
being run as a distcc user, the ebuild is presently creating the user itself.  

It would be nice to add this user to baselayout to ease the problems that 
the process creates, namely that of needless complexity in the ebuild.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Zach Welch (RETIRED) 2003-03-11 18:16:57 UTC]

Another reason to add distcc to baselayout... Without it there, the distcc ebuild
is required to emerge sys-apps/shadow in order to install its user.
Since distcc would be very useful in merging shadow's deps, it would be nice 
to have it in baselayout so distcc can be emerged before system without 
requiring the user to hack /etc/passwd manually.

Thanks. :) 

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-03-16 07:25:57 UTC]

Zach, there are a few problems with adding users (one, /etc/passwd do not get
really installed, etc).  We need to finish another project for adding/updating
users in the system that are in various degrees of not finsished.

[Comment 3 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2003-11-12 12:21:08 UTC]

What's the status on this one?

[Comment 4 David Ripton 2003-12-18 06:00:56 UTC]

Add depend on 36062; the distcc uid should be fixed before adding the user to baselayout.

[Comment 5 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-05-06 19:38:40 UTC]

Looked in my /etc/passwd, the distcc user is there.  I guess this can be closed.