From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 13 23:19:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA3B106566B for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:19:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [64.156.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AA98FC24 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:19:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eggman.experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22204A6703D; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:10:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by eggman.experts-exchange.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:17:55 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:17:55 -0800 From: Jason Message-ID: <20100113231755.GA10350@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <20100106202657.GD93034@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <20100109003655.GD52892@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <20100111203941.GA63794@eggman.experts-exchange.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100111203941.GA63794@eggman.experts-exchange.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie Subject: Re: UIDs question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:19:19 -0000 On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:39:41PM -0800, Jason thus spake: >>>> >>>> I was wondering if there is a way to have the port install the user using >>>> the native USERS or GROUPS directives in the do-install phase with the >>>> INSTALL macros, or if there is a more suggested, or conventional, way of >>>> doing this operation. >>> >>>Would you mind putting the files somewhere and showing us the error >>>log? I am aware of one caveat at the moment, which is that you can't >>>use users/groups created with USERS/GROUPS in pkg-plist. Every typical >>>use case with directives contained in Makefile should be fine AFAIK. >>> >>>-- >>>Florent Thoumie >>>flz@FreeBSD.org >>>FreeBSD Committer >>> >> >>I've uploaded to pastebin, and hope this is enough to go on. Please let me >>know if it is not, and I will make the information needed available. >> >>http://freebsd.pastebin.com/m359b2c91 > >I will attach the text of the pastebin for convenience. I found that the local UIDs files was malformed, and once the formatting was fixed, it worked as it should. -jason