ports/83077: Update port: mail/avenger to version 0.6.5

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 7 21:31:17 UTC 2005


David Mazieres píše v čt 07. 07. 2005 v 17:15 -0400:

> > Also please don't remove hardcoding of UID/GID from pkg-install script.
> > It's FreeBSD Ports policy to hardcode UIDs for system users.
> 
> I'm slightly confused here.  On the FreeBSD web page, it says:
> 
>         http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-uid-and-gids.html
> 
>         If your port requires a certain user to be on the installed
>         system, let the pkg-install script call pw to create it
>         automatically. Look at net/cvsup-mirror for an example.
> 
>         If your port must use the same user/group ID number when it is
>         installed as a binary package as when it was compiled, then
>         you must choose a free UID from 50 to 999 and register it
>         below. Look at japanese/Wnn6 for an example.
> 
> This port does not require the same user/group when it is installed as
> when it was compiled.  So I looked at net/cvsup-mirror, and it
> allocates the uid dynamically.  From this I concluded that I had
> messed up in the first port I submitted.
> 
> Should I not do what net/cvsup-mirror does?  If so, what UID should I
> use.  Last time I used 172, but I now see it has been taken for the
> akg user by the AquaGateKeeper port, so I should pick a different
> number.  Maybe 175?

Hmm, now this conflicts with that I'm used to, but I guess documentation
is right, not me, so let's go with your patch.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

Linux is a happy free-for-all chaos.
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