[389-devel] Please comment: [389 Project] #48285: The dirsrv user/group should be created in rpm %pre, and ideally with fixed uid/gid

[Lukas Slebodnik]

On (21/10/15 11:20), Noriko Hosoi wrote:
>Thanks to William for his reviewing the patch.  I'm going to push it.  But
>before doing so, I have a question regarding the autogen files.
>
>The proposed patch requires to rerun autogen.sh and push the generated files
>to the git.  My current env has automake 1.15 and it generates large diffs as
>attached to this email.
>-# Makefile.in generated by automake 1.13.4 from Makefile.am.
>+# Makefile.in generated by automake 1.15 from Makefile.am.
>
>Is it okay to push the attached patch
>0002-Ticket-48285-The-dirsrv-user-group-should-be-created.patch to git or do
>we prefer to keep the diff minimum by runing autogen on the host having the
>same version of automake (1.13.4)?
>
May I ask a question; why the autotools generated files have to be stored
in git?

LS