Re: Request for comments on alpine package files

[Daniel Golle]

Hi Christian,
Hi xrs,

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 09:45:20PM +0200, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> Hi xrs,
> 
> I'm wondering about:
> 
>   To setup GNUnet user services for a regular user:
>   > sudo gnunet-user-setup.sh -u USER
> 
>   To start GNUnet user services for 'USER':
>   > sudo rc-service gnunet-USER-services start
> 
> Can't the gnunet-user-setup.sh script make it so that the user services
> are auto-started whenever the user is logged in (especially/at least for
> X logins)?  Having to manually start the user services after each login
> sounds unnecessarily painful ;-).
> 
> Also, I see no integration with libc's NSS (/etc/nsswitch.conf). Am I
> overlooking something? If not, was it simply not done or would it be
> against Alpine policy?

Alpine (just like OpenWrt) uses musl libc rather than glibc and there
is no nsswitch :(.

> 
> happy hacking!
> 
> Christian
> 
> On 4/30/20 12:36 PM, xrs wrote:
> > Heyho,
> > 
> > who are likes, please have a look at the updates on the alpine package
> > files.
> > 
> >   https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/merge_requests/5936
> > 
> > What is missing? What should be change?
> > 
> > I have a few open comments from the alpine devs, but it's already beta. 
> > 
> > Happy hacking,
> > xrs
> > 
>