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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