SPECS: sabayon.spec - 2.22.0 - actually works

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Wed Mar 19 18:36:17 CET 2008


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 05:56:39PM +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Elan Ruusamäe <glen at delfi.ee> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 17:58:24 Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> >  > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Elan Ruusamäe <glen at delfi.ee> wrote:
> >  > > On Thursday 13 March 2008 01:18:17 Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> >  > >  > On Thursday 13 March 2008 01:05, patrys wrote:
> >  > >  > > -Requires:      shadow
> >  > >  > > +Requires:      pwdutils
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > isn't the "shadow" virtual that pwdutils provides?
> >  > >
> >  > >  hello?
> >  >
> >  > In th pwdutils is the only package that provides shadow. It's also the
> >  > only package that supports our group/user adding macros.
> >
> >  argh, yeah th forever! (i don't care of anything)
> >
> >  but XFree86 virtual deps were (are) used long time even AC used X11! so will
> >  this be virtual or not (shadow)?
> 
> You can change this to shadow but be aware that the shadow's useradd
> can't handle the params %adduser macro passes

Which one?

> so it will only work
> with pwdutils even if you stick with Ac (unless Ac has different build
> macros or unless the macros were adapted to support shadow utils).


Generally, I'd be for using metapackage name - but with name other than
any real package (including "shadow" or "pwdutils").
E.g. passwd-utils or shadow-utils.


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