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

Panu Matilainen notifications at github.com
Thu Mar 12 12:36:31 UTC 2026


@pmatilai commented on this pull request.



> +
+## Vendors
+
+By default, the generated virtual requires are _hard_ dependencies. 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).
+
+# TECHNICAL DETAILS
+## Encoding
+
+RPM will generate any combination of the following virtual provides based on,
+and attached to, the packaged *sysusers.d*(5) file(s):
+
+*user(*_uname_*) = *_base64_++
+*group(*_gname_*)*[* = *_base64_]++

Although technically correct, I think it'd be more human-readable as

```suggestion
*group(*_gname_*) *[*= *_base64_]++
```

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