| Summary: | sys-apps/baselayout: Include group "dialout" to match upstream udev | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) <ssuominen> |
| Component: | [OLD] baselayout | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | alexander, maggu2810, mgorny, nikoli, udev-bugs |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463376 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 463376 | ||
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Description
Samuli Suominen (RETIRED)
2013-01-29 16:21:20 UTC
Is there any way someone can check other distros to see if dialout and uucp both exist? The last time I checked (debian I think) I don't think I remember seeing a uucp group at all, but dialout is the new group. If that's the case, how would we want this to happen so we could remove the uucp group on live systems? From a quick glance: - something added the dialout group to my system, possibly long ago. I don't see it in baselayout, yet I had it before adding enewgroup to systemd. - app-mobilephone/smsclient installs files owned by that group. It doesn't in any way enforce creation of that group. - net-misc/asterisk creates the group with GID 20. Not sure if the intent is the same there. - net-dialup/wvdial states 'Users have to be member of the dialout AND the uucp group'. No idea why. uucp has been around for much longer. dialout served pretty much the same purpose as uucp. it was dropped during baselayout-1.13 development 6 years ago: http://sources.gentoo.org/baselayout?view=revision&revision=2445 redhat was making the same change with their migration to the makedev package. that's why a lot of people have dialup still on their systems Can you advise us on udev/systemd then? Since they require it, should we be creating it, or should we edit the rules so that they use the uucp group? Based on... https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463376#c5 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454556#c3 ...i'm closing this as WONTFIX. Seems like the general consensus is that 'uucp' is preferred at this time. |
