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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] New acct-* packages for media-sound/snapcast
From:       Jakov Smolic <jakov.smolic () sartura ! hr>
Date:       2020-09-30 10:24:42
Message-ID: 679421a3-416f-7218-cb24-bda998a7e031 () sartura ! hr
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On 9/30/20 12:19 PM, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> 
> On 9/30/20 1:09 PM, Jakov Smolic wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'd like to reserve 1 GID (462) and 2 UIDs (461 and 463) for new acct-*
> > packages needed with media-sound/snapcast.
> > I've submitted the packages as part of the following PR:
> > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/17333
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is not necessary anymore. You said in your PR you saw this is
> required, where did you see it? It's outdated information. Please refer to
I think I saw it on some older thread on the mailing list, can't
remember where exactly, I assumed later it's outdated but decided to
send the mail just in case.

> https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/user-group.html
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Proxied_Maintainer_FAQ#Adding_acct-.7Bgroup.2Cuser.7D.2Fpackages_as_a_proxied_maintainer
> 
Yeah, saw those pages in the meantime :)

> Also do note we try to go downwards from 500, so the next available
> number seems to be 384, per,
> 
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/tree/files/uid-gid.txt
> 
> although a next free one will be given to you during merge. 461-463 are
> already taken.
Sure, I went through the list and picked first numbers from 500 that
were available, 416-463 seemed available, but I will change the numbers.
Thanks you!

> -- juippis
> 
> 

-- 
Best regards,
Jakov Smolic


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