Re: pkg/44068: Mailman's build process uses uid/gid of 'daemon' instead of 'mailman' and breaks package

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44068; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/44068: Mailman's build process uses uid/gid of 'daemon'
 instead of 'mailman' and breaks package
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:49:46 +0000

 On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:35:00PM +0000, andras%freeshell.de@localhost wrote:
  > The Makefile of Mailman contains unsuitable definitions of these
  > two variables:
  > 
  > MAILMAN_USER
  > MAILMAN_GROUP
  > 
  > Which both default do the daemon user/group, although mailman
  > should run under the 'mailman' group and the 'mailman' user.
  > >How-To-Repeat:
  > Simply compile the latest Mailman version from pkgsrc.
  > >Fix:
  > Edit /usr/pkgsrc/mail/mailman/Makefile
  > 
  > Changes made:
  >   MAILMAN_USER?=          mailman
  >   MAILMAN_GROUP?=         mailman
 
 The mailman package makefile has defined MAILMAN_USER and
 MAILMAN_GROUP this way since the package was first imported in 2002.
 
 Is your pkgsrc tree corrupted?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost