Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:34:55 -0000 From: Pete Fritchman <petef@absolutbsd.org> To: 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: <20040112163450.B150E17DB9@sirius.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> of "Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:48:32 CST." <20040112154832.GI491@seekingfire.com>
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* 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.html 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
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