Re: Chaging uid/gid at binary install

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 16:08, Masao Uebayashi 
> <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:14:17 +0900, Masao Uebayashi 
>>> <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost> wrote:
>>>
>>> >OpenBSD Ports has this:
>>> >
>>> >http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list
>
>> Can we provide a pre-defined pkgsrc username/UID "range"?
>
> This is a very good idea. This variable could be set in mk.conf.
>
> Additionally, how about a user.list like in OpenBSD ports, but with
> _offsets_ relative to the range given? This way, at least the UIDs
> depend only on the platform (ideally), not on the order in which the
> packages were built and installed.
>
> For example, if you have platform XY set a default range of, say,
> 20000-21000 and a user squid with offset +20 in user.list, binary
> packages would be created with the user squid with uid 20020,
> regardless of what other packages have been installed.
>
> Comments?

Yes, this exactly matches what I'm having in my head.

>
> --Benny.
>