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>   1. Re: Updates - 20200328.1 (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo)
>   2. Re: nvidia-driver-440.64 submitted (Lenard Spencer)
>   3. Re: uids/gids (B Watson)
>   4. Re: uids/gids (Biff Eros)
>   5. updates needed for dependencies I wrote scripts for? (mathics
>      but others' builds now?) (David Chmelik)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 08:11:16 +0700
> From: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org>
> To: slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org
> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20200328.1
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>> Hi, Willy :)
>> I added -DSNAPPY_BUILD_TESTS=0 option and 'snappy' compiled without problems
> 
> I test it here on my VM and it worked fine
> snappy:
>  MD5SUM check for snappy-1.1.8.tar.gz ... OK
>  Building package snappy-1.1.8-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz ... OK
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> Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:13:44 -0400
> From: Lenard Spencer <lenardrspencer at gmail.com>
> To: "SlackBuilds.org Users List" <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] nvidia-driver-440.64 submitted
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> Thanks much!
> 
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 18:01 King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 3/25/20 10:32 AM, Lenard Spencer wrote:
>>> If nobody else wants it I'll take it.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Approved. A bit earlier than had I planned, but it is definitely better
>> to have a maintainer that can run the nvidia-driver on actual hardware.
>> 
>> All hail the newly anointed nvidia high priest!
>> 
>> -Ed
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:59:34 -0400
> From: B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com>
> To: "SlackBuilds.org Users List" <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] uids/gids
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> On 3/30/20, Biff Eros <bifferos at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I started off manually creating user/group creation scripts for
>> Afterpkg, looking a bit like this:
>> https://github.com/bifferos/afterpkg/blob/master/scripts/system/mongodb/before.sh
> 
> Interesting project... not sure I'd want to mix-and-match pip-installed
> and SBo-installed stuff, but if someone does want to, your script looks
> like it should handle it well.
> 
> The before.sh you linked does something horrible though. Nobody should
> ever grep /etc/passwd and/or group to see if a user exists (what if
> they're using LDAP authentication? NIS? In 15.0 we're going to have PAM,
> what if they're using something we never even heard of before?)
> 
> Instead use getent. Like so:
> 
> ---cut-here---
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> # Create the mongo group
> if getent group mongo >/dev/null ; then
>  echo "mongo group exists, no need to add it"
> else
>  echo "Creating mongo group"
>  groupadd -r -g 285 mongo
> fi
> 
> # Create the mongo user
> if getent passwd mongo >/dev/null ; then
>  echo "mongo user exists, no need to add it"
> else
>  echo "Creating mongo user"
>  useradd -u 285 -d /var/lib/mongodb -s /bin/false -g mongo mongo
> fi
> ---cut-here---
> 
> Notice it's a pretty minor change: only the two "if grep" lines are
> different. getent is is part of glibc, so it's guaranteed to be present
> on any Slack box that's able to compile anything.
> 
> If you're generating the uid/gid creation scripts, I guess you only have
> to change it in one place (the generator script).
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 08:51:58 +0100
> From: Biff Eros <bifferos at gmail.com>
> To: "SlackBuilds.org Users List" <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] uids/gids
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> I think there was some reason I couldn't rely on getent being present when
> I wrote that code, initially I was using it in the context of a minimal
> install but you are right, I will make that change, thanks for letting me
> know.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 3:59 AM B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/30/20, Biff Eros <bifferos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I started off manually creating user/group creation scripts for
>>> Afterpkg, looking a bit like this:
>>> 
>> https://github.com/bifferos/afterpkg/blob/master/scripts/system/mongodb/before.sh
>> 
>> Interesting project... not sure I'd want to mix-and-match pip-installed
>> and SBo-installed stuff, but if someone does want to, your script looks
>> like it should handle it well.
>> 
>> The before.sh you linked does something horrible though. Nobody should
>> ever grep /etc/passwd and/or group to see if a user exists (what if
>> they're using LDAP authentication? NIS? In 15.0 we're going to have PAM,
>> what if they're using something we never even heard of before?)
>> 
>> Instead use getent. Like so:
>> 
>> ---cut-here---
>> #!/bin/bash
>> 
>> # Create the mongo group
>> if getent group mongo >/dev/null ; then
>>  echo "mongo group exists, no need to add it"
>> else
>>  echo "Creating mongo group"
>>  groupadd -r -g 285 mongo
>> fi
>> 
>> # Create the mongo user
>> if getent passwd mongo >/dev/null ; then
>>  echo "mongo user exists, no need to add it"
>> else
>>  echo "Creating mongo user"
>>  useradd -u 285 -d /var/lib/mongodb -s /bin/false -g mongo mongo
>> fi
>> ---cut-here---
>> 
>> Notice it's a pretty minor change: only the two "if grep" lines are
>> different. getent is is part of glibc, so it's guaranteed to be present
>> on any Slack box that's able to compile anything.
>> 
>> If you're generating the uid/gid creation scripts, I guess you only have
>> to change it in one place (the generator script).
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 07:45:25 -0700
> From: David Chmelik <dchmelik at gmail.com>
> To: SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] updates needed for dependencies I wrote
> 	scripts for? (mathics but others' builds now?)
> Message-ID: <4588910d-6120-782c-e8f8-c7b9c45d0faf at gmail.com>
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> ??? Some years ago I wrote mathics.SlackBuild and some dependencies 
> (depends on colorama, mpmath, ply, python-dateutil, 
> python-django-legacy, six, sympy, but at this point I forgot which few I 
> did, though I have them) and am aware some people use one or more 
> dependencies I wrote for something else.? However, Mathics hasn't had 
> normally-numbered (sequential-numbered) stable releases in years rather 
> than abnormally-numbered (hash-numbered) development releases.? I am not 
> building any of those releases.? If someone soon needs a newer version 
> of some dependency I wrote the script for, it'll have to be forked.? Let 
> me know if/when that needs to be done, which I suggest whoever needs 
> that dependency, will (after letting me submit a so-called 'legacy' 
> version) take it over when you need to update your build, so fork my 
> dependency, update it for newer versions (and I'll keep the so-called 
> 'legacy' version for Mathics.)
> ??? If they're going to have to be converted to Python 3, I'm not sure 
> about that.? Basically I'd have to wait for a new normally-numbered 
> Mathics release and see if that uses Python 3, or if it can be otherwise 
> changed, otherwise the current Mathics will have to use what it has, or 
> be dropped, whatever will work... will have to see what the SlackBuilds 
> administrators say...
> 
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