Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:51:44 +1100 From: "Chris Knight" <chris@e-easy.com.au> To: "'Pete Fritchman'" <petef@absolutbsd.org>, "'Tillman Hodgson'" <tillman@seekingfire.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD-Ports' <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: UID conflict: Both database/firebird and net/quagga apeear to use UID 90 Message-ID: <200401122321.i0CNLmKV044451@postoffice.e-easy.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040112163450.B150E17DB9@sirius.firepipe.net>
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Howdy, > -----Original Message----- > From: petef@sirius.firepipe.net On Behalf Of Pete Fritchman > Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:35 > To: Tillman Hodgson > Cc: FreeBSD-Ports; chris@e-easy.com.au; boris@tagnet.ru > Subject: Re: UID conflict: Both database/firebird and > net/quagga apeear to use UID 90 > > * Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:48:32 CST - Tillman Hodgson: > | This makes using devel/fpc (which has firebird as a dependency) > | on a box running quagga rather interesting. > | > | What's the standard way to handle cases like this? I thought of > | filing a probabably PR, but defining the problem seemed > | difficult: which port needs to migrate? To what UID? How will > | the existing installations handle the change? > > Well, someone has to change :-) I'd say whoever had the UID > first gets to keep it. It's really up to the two maintainers > (cc:'d). Whatever the result, the UID chosen should be > documented here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-uid.h tml > I requested a UID and GID (90) for firebird years ago (before the smmsp assignment), but nothing happened. That's why the UID/GID assignment code likes to start with 90, but will assign the next highest UID/GID that it finds free. If someone will give me an assigned UID/GID, that would be good. I would then update the UID/GID assignment code to start with this value, but still look for the next highest unassigned UID/GID. > If we keep all the UIDs documented there, we should'd have > the problem of people adding a new port with a duplicate UID. > I'm sure there are a ton of ports that add users with UIDs > that are _not_ documented there; we should probably fix that > as we come across them. > > --pete > Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator E-Easy Tel: +61 3 6334 9995 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 Web: http://www.e-easy.com.au
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