[arch-dev-public] [testing] util-linux heads-up

[Dave Reisner]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 10:09:45AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> Am 08.09.2012 15:33, schrieb Dave Reisner:
> > A few remaining bugs in testing/util-linux at the moment:
> >
> > - shadow needs to be a dep
> > - uuidd user's home is wrong
> >
> > These will be fixed in a -4 I'm rolling up. Note that testing users who
> > have uuidd's home in /home/uuidd will want to fix this by simply
> > running:
> >
> >   usermod -d / uuidd
> >
> > One last bug about hwclock [1] is still outstanding, but I'm not able to
> > reproduce it. I'm still unconvinced of whether it's a legit bug in
> > hwclock or just something we need to fix in initscripts, but I've
> > forwarded the bug onto the util-linux ML to see if I can get input from
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31416
> >
> Shouldn't uuidd user have the same uid/gid on all systems?
> 
> greetings
> tpowa
> 

Not really important. It's used for creating /run/uuidd and running the
daemon. Whether this is picked by the system or some curated number that
we pick makes little difference -- we won't be shipping around files
that are owned by this user.