From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 10 10:11:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B0137B401; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:11:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from staff.supernews.net (staff.ranger.supernews.net [216.168.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55E243E4A; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:11:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ade@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cs24344-122.austin.rr.com ([24.243.44.122] helo=[10.0.0.2] ident=ident) by staff.supernews.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17dZlq-0001sy-00; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17:11:22 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:11:20 -0500 Subject: Re: Reserve uid:gid 92 From: Ade Lovett To: Will Andrews , Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020810161144.GN78857@squall.waterspout.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 08/10/02 11:11, "Will Andrews" wrote: > We don't have a formal procedure for this sort of thing. If a > gid/uid is not used by a system component or by any other port, > ports committers simply used it in their port(s), in the past. > Perhaps, for reference's sake, we should change that. > > Suggestions welcome on how exactly to solve that problem. How about a simple file maintained in ports/Mk/master.passwd.ports and ports/Mk/group.ports in the same form as etc/master.passwd and etc/group, with the addition of the port location? It shouldn't be too hard to then add a target to check for these at pre-install time and automaticall add them. -aDe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message