Re: pkg/39235: Unprivileged pkgsrc bootstrap fails on OpenSolaris 2008.05

[Lubomir Sedlacik <salo%Xtrmntr.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39235; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo%Xtrmntr.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/39235: Unprivileged pkgsrc bootstrap fails on OpenSolaris 
2008.05
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:17:17 +0200

 On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:45:03AM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:30:00AM +0000, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
 >  > >Fix:
 >  > OpenSolaris seems to have effectively done away with the /usr/ucb/
 >  > binaries, and replaced them with /usr/gnu/bin/.  In the bootstrap
 >  > script, there's a hard-coded assumption that /usr/ucb/whoami
 >  > exists, which it does not on OpenSolaris 2008.05.
 >  
 >  Does Solaris set $USER by default? If yes, I would go with the
 >  attached version.
 
 Why don't you just use id -u and compare to 0?  That works everywhere,
 since it's mandated by POSIX.  (Granted, on older Solaris releases
 you'll need to use /usr/xpg4/bin/id).
 
 
 regards,
 
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