Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
[...]
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/...
say:
"Create a <package-name>.sysusers file with the user definition and add
where usr/lib/sysusers.d/geekotest.conf is the path to one of the
sysusers config file within the upstream source, but it doesn't seem to
work. [...]
One problem with these sysusers rpm macros is that they expand to the
scriptlets very early: before even the main source tarball is extracted.
This is why the fedora packaging guideline more or less forces them to
be first-class spec sources.
In the case of systemtap, we worked around this by moving the sysusers
config files right into the spec file - out of the source tarball - and
feed them to %pre and %install scripts by hand.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/systemtap/blob/rawhide/f/systemtap.spe...
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/systemtap/blob/rawhide/f/systemtap.spe...
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/systemtap/blob/rawhide/f/systemtap.spe...
IMO this is ugly and unfortunate.
- FChE