Bug 470910 – sys-apps/util-linux - uuidd: make optional, add openrc script

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Alexander Tsoy 2013-05-21 19:28:16 UTC]

1. Let's make uuidd optional. Seems it is not widely used: nobody requested openrc script for it yet and some distributions (e.g. rhel) even ships uuidd in a separate package.

2. Add openrc script for uuidd.

3. Systemd units are instaled automagically if systemd is installed. Use systemd.eclass to always install systemd units if USE=uuidd.

[Comment 1 Alexander Tsoy 2013-05-21 19:28:47 UTC]

Created attachment 348850 [details]
files/uuidd.initd

[Comment 2 Alexander Tsoy 2013-05-21 19:29:07 UTC]

Created attachment 348852 [details, diff]
util-linux-2.22.2.ebuild.patch

[Comment 3 Alexander Tsoy 2013-05-21 22:31:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created attachment 348850 [details]
> files/uuidd.initd

depend() should be changed:
"after clock" -> "need localmount clock"

[Comment 4 Kai Krakow 2013-12-09 13:49:41 UTC]

For uuidd to actually work with the shipped uuidd service files, uuidd has to be compiled with socket activation support. The man page even states that this is only used in combination with systemd.

So maybe add a systemd useflag which compiles uuidd with socket activation support.

If you still want to make uuidd optional, there should probably be a use constraint like "systemd? (uuid)".

Having a use flag like systemd sounds more logical to me than implementing suggestion number 3 from the bug description.

[Comment 5 Robin Johnson 2020-04-03 23:12:43 UTC]

eroyf:
Can you bump this patch with acct-{user,group}/uuidd?

[Comment 6 Mike Gilbert 2024-05-11 16:10:18 UTC]

Looks like util-linux is now installing a tmpfiles snippet. From IRC:

Mai 10 20:17:26 lucy systemd[1]: Starting Cleanup of Temporary Directories...
Mai 10 20:17:26 lucy systemd-tmpfiles[3498]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd-tmpfiles.conf:5: Failed to resolve user 'uuidd': No such process
Mai 10 20:17:26 lucy systemd-tmpfiles[3498]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd-tmpfiles.conf:6: Failed to resolve user 'uuidd': No such process
Mai 10 20:17:26 lucy systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service: Deactivated successfully.
Mai 10 20:17:26 lucy systemd[1]: Finished Cleanup of Temporary Directories.

[Comment 7 Mike Gilbert 2024-05-11 16:29:40 UTC]

commit 3d914ed6943fa80ad9a615d58e4b5257665a9a66
Author: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
Date:   Sat May 11 12:22:38 2024 -0400

    uid-gid.txt: assign 540 to uuidd

    Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>

[Comment 8 Larry the Git Cow 2024-05-11 17:19:40 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8bdea3071842b04cc1c183856c7af4ce8a118154

commit 8bdea3071842b04cc1c183856c7af4ce8a118154
Author:     Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2024-05-11 17:18:07 +0000
Commit:     Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2024-05-11 17:19:19 +0000

    sys-apps/util-linux: wire up uuidd properly
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/470910
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/931303
    Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>

 sys-apps/util-linux/files/uuidd.initd               | 10 ++++++++++
 sys-apps/util-linux/metadata.xml                    |  1 +
 ...ux-2.40.1.ebuild => util-linux-2.40.1-r1.ebuild} | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-9999.ebuild          | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)