Use systemd sysusers config to create user and group

See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/#_dynamic_allocation

quassel.spec

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-%global quassel_user        quassel
 %global quassel_data_dir    %{_var}/lib/quassel
 
 Name:    quassel
 Summary: A modern distributed IRC system
 Version: 0.13.1
-Release: 10%{?dist}
+Release: 11%{?dist}
 
 License: GPLv2 or GPLv3
 URL:     http://quassel-irc.org/
@@ -41,6 +40,7 @@ BuildRequires: qt5-qtmultimedia-devel
 BuildRequires: openldap-devel
 
 BuildRequires: systemd
+BuildRequires: systemd-rpm-macros
 
 BuildRequires: libappstream-glib
 
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ Requires: %{name}-common = %{version}-%{release}
 # Systemd service file and configuration script.
 Source1: quasselcore.service
 Source2: quassel.conf
+Source3: quassel.sysusers
 
 # Appstream metadata, for GNOME Software.
 Source4: quassel.appdata.xml
@@ -79,9 +80,6 @@ BuildArch: noarch
 %package core
 Summary: Quassel core component
 
-# Required for the quassel user.
-Requires(pre): shadow-utils
-
 # Weak dependency on qt5 postgresql bindings.
 # We use a weak dependency here so they can be uninstalled if necessary.
 Recommends: qt5-qtbase-postgresql
@@ -119,6 +117,9 @@ install -Dp -m 0644 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/%{name}.conf
 # Install systemd service file
 install -Dp -m 0644 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}/%{_unitdir}/quasselcore.service
 
+# Install the systemd-sysusers config
+install -Dp -m 0644 %{SOURCE3} %{buildroot}%{_sysusersdir}/%{name}.conf
+
 # Home directory for quassel user
 install -d -m 0750 %{buildroot}/%{quassel_data_dir}
 
@@ -128,13 +129,8 @@ cp -a %{SOURCE4} %{SOURCE5} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/appdata/
 appstream-util validate-relax --nonet %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/appdata/*.appdata.xml
 
 # Core pre/post macros.
-
 %pre core
-getent group %{quassel_user} >/dev/null || groupadd -r %{quassel_user}
+%sysusers_create_compat %{SOURCE3}
-getent passwd %{quassel_user} >/dev/null || \
-    useradd -r -g %{quassel_user} -d %{quassel_data_dir} -s /sbin/nologin \
-    -c "Account to own and run the quasselcore daemon from." %{quassel_user}
-exit 0
 
 %post core
 # Install quassel service.
@@ -165,14 +161,18 @@ exit 0
 %dir %attr(-,quassel,quassel) %{quassel_data_dir}
 %{_unitdir}/quasselcore.service
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/quassel.conf
+%{_sysusersdir}/%{name}.conf
 
 %files client
 %{_kf5_bindir}/quasselclient
 %{_kf5_datadir}/applications/quasselclient.desktop
-%{_datadir}/appdata/quasselclient.appdata.xml
+%{_datadir}/metainfo/quasselclient.appdata.xml
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Feb 10 2022 Timothée Ravier <tim@siosm.fr> - 0.13.1-11
+- Use systemd sysusers config to create user and group
+
 * Fri Jan 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.13.1-10
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
 

quassel.sysusers

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+u quassel - "quasselcore daemon" /var/lib/quassel