Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:20:46 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/116448: devel/dbus intolerent of existing 556 GID Message-ID: <20070919132046.GA74778@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <1190174125.85751.51.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <200709182152.l8ILq9wH089174@freefall.freebsd.org> <20070919005410.GA57936@dragon.NUXI.org> <1190174125.85751.51.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:55:25PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:54 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > 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? > > I think it was done this way as not all ports committers have src bits. > Plus, not everyone installs all ports, so mandating UIDs and GIDs on all > systems might be a waste. But as I said, you aren't restricted to 556. > You can create a messagebus group before installing dbus, and the port > will simply use that group with whatever gid you assign it. I'm curious - why doesn't dbus then just use 'pw' to create the group with an unspecified GID like the svn port does? Why was this so anonying? I was trying to build evolution-exchange before going to work - and of course the build broke 1/2 thru. Which I didn't notice until I got home. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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