sysusers.d and F42 #1489

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opened 2025-09-22 01:30:45 +00:00 by tibbs · 1 comment

tibbs commented

2025-09-22 01:30:45 +00:00

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Am I just confused about when this was supposed to be supported? Either the guidelines are wrong or somehow the macros weren't updated to null out the definitions on F42.

Also, I wonder if there's any solution for packages where the sysusers file can't live in a SOURCE file (because, perhaps, the user names are defined in macros). Besides the obvious solution of just not sharing the same spec across multiple branches, of course.

Makes the weird extreme rush to get everything patched to do this even stranger.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/#_creation_of_users_and_groups_with_scriptlets says that F42 and later fully support sysusers.d, and that the various backwards-compatibility macros will evaluate empty there. But I think that's incorrect, and it's actually F43 where this is the case. Am I just confused about when this was supposed to be supported? Either the guidelines are wrong or somehow the macros weren't updated to null out the definitions on F42. Also, I wonder if there's any solution for packages where the sysusers file can't live in a SOURCE file (because, perhaps, the user names are defined in macros). Besides the obvious solution of just not sharing the same spec across multiple branches, of course. Makes the weird extreme rush to get everything patched to do this even stranger.