Subject: Re: Third Party User-UIDs > 1000
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: None <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/12/2006 19:27:05
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:13:47PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 18:54 Uhr +0100 12.2.2006, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:19:00PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> >> it is unsatisfying to have users from pkgsrc software using UIDs > 1000.
> >
> >Well, PKG_CREATE_USERGROUP=no and create them by hand.
>
> How do packages react to that? Does a 'make install' terminate and request
> you to create user foo / group bar, or are you supposed to create them up
> front and announce them in mk.conf?
pkgsrc requests you to create the user/group for the pkg. I forgot at
which point though.
Joerg