[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#844339: Bug#844339: patch for sid

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira]

Hi Guido,

On 11/15/2016 08:00 AM, Guido Günther wrote:
>> What do you think of a debconf warning message/prompt, which
>> > asks the user to confirm that it's OK not to use the uid/gid values,
>> > and explains about the potential problem w/ guest migration over NFS?

> Although it adds some complexity it makes the most sense. Are you going
> to look into this?

Yup. Looking.

Meanwhile, is it a problem if the primary group of libvirt-qemu user
changes from kvm to libvirt-qemu (ie, adduser --ingroup), then later
the user is added to the kvm group (ie, adduser libvirt-qemu kvm) ?

This would help to check the gid in the debconf config script, since
it can only use essential packages (ie, coreutils's id command), and
the id command can only return the gid of the primary group.

A more conservative option is to directly grep for libvirt-qemu pattern
in /etc/group. That should work as well.

Do you prefer either one?

Thanks,

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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
IBM Linux Technology Center