From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 14:42:18 2004 Return-Path: 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 4D9A316A4CE; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.urchin.com (ns2.quantified.com [63.212.171.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A106F43D54; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) Received: from support.urchin.com (support.urchin.com [63.212.171.7]) by mail.urchin.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i07Mg8EP086131; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:41:46 -0801 (PST) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) Received: from danzig.sd.quantified.net (web.urchin.com [63.212.171.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by support.urchin.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i07MhHrM060843; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:42:58 -0801 (PST) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) From: Doug Silver Organization: Urchin Software Corporation To: Brooks Davis , Doug Barton Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:42:10 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200401070846.i078kppZ001556@odie.koellers.net> <20040107133553.O59570@qbhto.arg> <20040107215944.GB25920@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040107215944.GB25920@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401071442.10995.dsilver@urchin.com> X-Filter-Version: 1.7 (mail.urchin.com) cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: Please reserve UID/GID for bacula port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:42:18 -0000 On Wednesday 07 January 2004 01:59 pm, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:48:42PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Lars K=F6ller wrote: > > > Sorry, but I can't give you a number. But I think there is no > > > "large percentage of our userbase" using it. Even some active FreeBSD > > > user are on the bacula mailing list. > > > > Ok, then I like the idea of the port itself adding some lines to > > /etc/services to accomodate this. As for the argument that they would > > get deleted by (improper decisions made while using) mergemaster, it > > would be up to the port author to make it clear ... something like: > > > > # These three lines are added by ports/sysutils/bacula > > bacula-1 9999/tcp # Added by ports/sysutils/bacula > > ... > > # End of lines added by ports/sysutils/bacula > > > > That way the user has a fighting chance of making the right mergemaster > > decision, and the port has an easy way to delete those lines when its > > uninstalled. > > At the very least it would be good to not add lines for services which > already exist so the user doesn't end up with a new copy of the lines > every time they do a portupgrade. That way you avoid situations like > the way the perl ports spam make.conf with 11 lines of crap every time > perl gets upgraded on a 5.x system. > > -- Brooks =46WIW - The www/urchin5 port by default also uses port 9999. This is not something= =20 that we desire to be reserved solely for our use since this can be changed = at=20 any time. Just thought I should point it out as the port was just recently= =20 added but we certainly don't have any desire to reserve 9999 as specific to= =20 Urchin. =2DDoug Silver