Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 21:52:18 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Ken Smith <kensmith@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: please add auditdistd user/group to -stable and the 9.1-release? Message-ID: <0D1FE0E1-7DAA-451D-8290-B338027249A0@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wSJjk=WxKOAvn7xT6psWJ9hegexg=Os2iK2XAV5vfUy-Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ-VmokK6-3qtPid0ZszRnEKoN4oy7ZHiB5dVcAa8K4XhVbtOg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wT4=9mpWHFxbJZ7DSzKD3%2B6POtxDjQqVm98hVx2yFUXcw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wQknTn1x2aU1HtgC=HweVe8i3qedCo1Tq2wtVOJW2og-Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wSJjk=WxKOAvn7xT6psWJ9hegexg=Os2iK2XAV5vfUy-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Dec 3, 2012, at 12:46 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Would you guys please add the auditdistd user/group info to >>>> 9.1-release, so people doing crossbuilds of -HEAD on a fresh >>>> 9.1-RELEASE won't get an install error? >>> >>> Or mtree could just use -w instead in Makefile.inc1 and distribute. >>> Let me do some investigation to determine whether or not this is a >>> valid solution to this problem. >> >> I've done some digging in the source tree and this seems like a >> potentially workable solution for the issue reported -- in part >> because auditdistd is only present in BSD.var.dist, /etc/rc.d/var runs >> BSD.var.dist at boot, etc: A more robust -- and possibly simpler -- solution might be to include the uid/gid in the mtree file as well and provide a way for mtree to fall back to using that if the uname/gname can't be looked up. This will probably require adding some switches to choose the appropriate behavior from among the following: * If both are specified, prefer the name. This is what tar always does: tries to use the name and falls back to using the number if the name isn't available. * If both are specified, prefer the number. This would be helpful if you were running mtree in a cross-build situation where the host system has radically different user/group numbering (Robert mentioned someday cross-building from non-FreeBSD hosts). * Require both to match. This would complain if the name/number in the mtree file didn't both exactly match the current host. This would be the useful behavior when using mtree files to verify files on disk. This is likely the most appropriate default behavior. Tim
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