adduser is a Debian-ism

[reynir]

adduser is a Debian frontend for useradd. It's not available on e.g. Archlinux. I don't have a proposed solution; I'm not sure if there's a nice portable way to add a system user.

https://github.com/juga0/dhcpcanon/blob/master/Makefile#L82

[juga0]

The nice way would be to check which Linux distribution is the system running, something to do at some point.
Somebody was going to package it for Archlinux, but i didn't heard back.

[reynir]

Somebody was going to package it for Archlinux, but i didn't heard back.

That might have been me, sorry. :)

[juga0]

it wasn't you :)

[kpcyrd]

Here you go: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dhcpcanon/ (needs thorough testing) :)

The recommended way to add system users in archlinux is sysusers.d(5).