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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:54:10 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        marcus@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/116448: devel/dbus intolerent of existing 556 GID
Message-ID:  <20070919005410.GA57936@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <200709182152.l8ILq9wH089174@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200709182152.l8ILq9wH089174@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:52:09PM +0000, marcus@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: devel/dbus intolerent of existing 556 GID
 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: marcus
> State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 18 21:50:42 UTC 2007
> State-Changed-Why: 
> 556 has been allocated to messagebus via /usr/ports/GIDs.  If you absolutely
> need this GID for something else, you need to pre-create the messagebus
> group with a GID that works for you.

This is disappointing - why must it be 556?  The reason I had it already
defined is because the subversion install creates a 'svn' group and
doesn't specify a GID.  To keep this from happening, why cannot we commit
/usr/ports/GIDs to /usr/src/etc/group to better reserve them?
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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