[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Native sysusers support is missing dependencies (Issue #2697)

[Panu Matilainen]

Didn't look through this all just now, but a couple of quick notes:
- The sysusers support is disabled in the Fedora package, you need to uncomment %__systemd_sysusers in the main macros file
- The sysusers addition runs from *outside* a chroot, so the "host" provides all the dependencies. That's basically the only way an empty chroot can be bootstrapped with file ownerships from the first package. In other words, you're overthinking it all by a mile. It's of course possible the main rpm is missing some packages for the script-based sysusers.sh version (and should be added explicitly), but grep, shadow-utils and all that are almost certainly pulled in by something else that rpm depends on. That's a Fedora packaging matter though.
- The dbus user vs group EVR thing is explained in https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/users_and_groups.html the technical details section but in short: sysusers creates implicit groups for all users, so the group doesn't need any more info. The provides is there only for dependency resolution.

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