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Date:      Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:31:15 +0200
From:      Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Mazieres <dm+bugs+avenger@mailavenger.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/83077: Update port: mail/avenger to version 0.6.5
Message-ID:  <1120771875.73011.20.camel@hood.oook.cz>
In-Reply-To: <6cpstus4g6.fsf@vivisex.scs.cs.nyu.edu>
References:  <200507072046.j67KkaMf035756@freefall.freebsd.org> <6cpstus4g6.fsf@vivisex.scs.cs.nyu.edu>

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David Mazieres p=ED=B9e v =E8t 07. 07. 2005 v 17:15 -0400:

> > Also please don't remove hardcoding of UID/GID from pkg-install script.
> > It's FreeBSD Ports policy to hardcode UIDs for system users.
>=20
> I'm slightly confused here.  On the FreeBSD web page, it says:
>=20
>         http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook=
/dads-uid-and-gids.html
>=20
>         If your port requires a certain user to be on the installed
>         system, let the pkg-install script call pw to create it
>         automatically. Look at net/cvsup-mirror for an example.
>=20
>         If your port must use the same user/group ID number when it is
>         installed as a binary package as when it was compiled, then
>         you must choose a free UID from 50 to 999 and register it
>         below. Look at japanese/Wnn6 for an example.
>=20
> This port does not require the same user/group when it is installed as
> when it was compiled.  So I looked at net/cvsup-mirror, and it
> allocates the uid dynamically.  From this I concluded that I had
> messed up in the first port I submitted.
>=20
> Should I not do what net/cvsup-mirror does?  If so, what UID should I
> use.  Last time I used 172, but I now see it has been taken for the
> akg user by the AquaGateKeeper port, so I should pick a different
> number.  Maybe 175?

Hmm, now this conflicts with that I'm used to, but I guess documentation
is right, not me, so let's go with your patch.

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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
              <pav@FreeBSD.org>

Linux is a happy free-for-all chaos.

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