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

[Rich Megginson]

On 10/21/2015 12:29 PM, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> 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?

Because we do things the old fashioned way - we try to make it so that a 
user can just use configure without having to first use autoconf/autogen.

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