Re: [OM Cooker] Odp.: Re: Odp.: Re: Makedev perl to bash conversion

On Jul 30, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote:

> Its matter to be consistent with other distros.

You are already entirely consistent with other distros:
	RPM compiled in user <-> uid mappings are being used everywhere.

> Only mdv-like provides setup package, other Have filesystem.

It Really Doesn't Matter: do whatever you choose.

73 de Jeff

> Wysłano z BlackBerry® w Orange
> From: Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:29:35 -0400
> To: Per Øyvind Karlsen<[email protected]>
> Cc: Tomasz Paweł Gajc<[email protected]>; Cooker OpenMandriva<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] [OM Cooker] Odp.: Re: Odp.: Re: Makedev perl to bash conversion
> 
> 
> On Jul 30, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
> 
>> 2013/7/30 Tomasz Paweł Gajc <[email protected]>
>> It still provides dev and still owns /dev directory.
>> 
>> This has to be fixed and some parts need to be moved to filesystem and udev subpackage or kmod.
>> Speaking of, despite my objection previously, someone went ahead and merged the setup & filesystem package, which given that /etc/passwd needs to exist before the filesystem package in order for usernames to be available to set file ownership, just screws up further what was intended to be fixed.
>> 
>> Would be nice if this change would get reverted.
> 
> Reverting is perfectly sane if and only if setup is ordered before
> all other packages always.
> 
> Installing setup (for password lookup) isn't close to being true for any modern linux distro, and
> (last I looked) was particularly bad in  Mandriva based systems, with large numbers
> of dependency loop's.
> 
> Short answer:
> 	It simply does not matter whether you have combined setup+filesystem
> 	or separate setup and filesystem packages.
> 
> 73 de Jeff
>