Re: new static uid/gid needed (ups)
> I'd have to ask upstream author, or patch it myself. Don't you consider
> UPS to be worthy piece of hw to have statical ids as the rest does?
we don't consider anything (except root = 0) worth to have a static id.
if the program looks up the id by name, and you create a rpm from the deb
(useing alien), it will work on redhat, suse, ... too.
> Is something wrong with static ids, apart from fact that it means more
> work to someone?
yep. doesn't work with other peoples system.
and if you are in a heterogenous environment, you might want to
change user id's for all machine to be the same, no matter what
distribution or unix you are running. static user id's are a pain
in such cases.
> I think both solutions are legal, is there a policy or
> just common sense to guide me?
don't know. but the only reasonable thing is : everything except root
is dunamic. i heard a rumor that lsb (linux standard base) will rule
this.
andreas
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