Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:56:34 +0200 From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Users needed or not by ports Message-ID: <AANLkTin3Ad6%2B2vM_TpynHz7ZOGWh8KMNRk2%2BQ-HCV8tC@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin3TDr3peGJ6m3EnN7%2BMSY3RcFZ2=BfKSDFk4iz@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimXPS4xBtx%2B2XJm99eetbwjBvsfC3PrjZSs14XT@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTin3TDr3peGJ6m3EnN7%2BMSY3RcFZ2=BfKSDFk4iz@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/10/12 Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:01 PM, David DEMELIER > <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Before writing a patch for the ports framework, I just want to be sure >> that FreeBSD ports shouldn't use a same user added by ports. For >> example pulseaudio adds some users to the system (pulse, >> pulse-whatever) and should these users be needed from others ports ? >> >> My plan is : >> >> 1. Register users added and needed by ports in files like +USERS +GROUPS, >> 2. When make deinstall or pkg_delete port_name check if the user is >> still needed by other port (if this is possible) >> 3. Print a message like "The following users and group are not needed >> anymore by the system : xxx yyy" >> >> pkgsrc already use something like this, so a port should be really >> easy to be done. > > This has already been discussed (including in a thread that you started [1]). > > This needs support in both ports and pkg_install. > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg27486.html > > -- > Florent Thoumie > flz@FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD Committer > Yes, for pkg_install I think I will talk to bapt because he's working on pkgng so maybe he has a great idea and a better knowledge in C, for the moment I made some changes in ports/Mk directory but not finished. I still need to know if a multiple ports could use a same user that has been added by one of them. I don't find any good example for this issue. -- Demelier David
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