Re: [arch-dev-public] user/group management in packages

On 03/02/15 17:58, Andrew Gregory wrote:

-1 for systemd-sysusers unless you can figure out a way to use it in pre_install. In order for the dynamic user creation Allan mentioned to work, pacman will have to be changed to use symbolic user names for file ownership which requires the user to exist *before* the package is extracted.

Yeah, it doesn't seem like systemd-sysusers can be used for that, since the user and group information is stored in a sysusers.d file. But for packages that use static (reserved) user/group IDs, it should work a treat. :)