[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add a man page for rpm sysusers integration (PR #4126)

[Panu Matilainen]

@pmatilai commented on this pull request.



> +# DEPENDENCIES
+
+RPM will generate an automatic requires on the named user or group for every
+non-root ownership declared through the *%attr()* or *%defattr()* directive in
+the *rpm-spec*(5) file. Similarly, it will generate a provides for every user
+and group declared in the packaged sysusers.d files and/or standalone entries.
+This ensures correct installation when a package relies on a user and/or group
+from another package.
+
+Explicit group membership (the *m* sysusers.d directive) will also create a
+dependency on both the user and the group name.
+
+By default, the dependencies are hard requires. This can be problematic when
+upgrading an existing distribution to RPM 4.19, however, so it is possible to
+weaken these requires into recommends, by setting *%\_use_weak_usergroup_deps*
+to *1* in the *rpmbuild-config*(5).

Oh yup, COMPATIBLITY is something we could even standardize on for these kind of items.

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