From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 30 12:03:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984851065670 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ttsestt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f44.google.com (mail-pz0-f44.google.com [209.85.210.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4D58FC15 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk5 with SMTP id 5so23730854pzk.17 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:03:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=92ryFAsWG7qjVRdHWt+E6UlH0krCfjia0diu84UTPtI=; b=uyCEMWKLN8Xjmqmv+V7yv8hUHJdLW5SfrWgHQdImq4lTnG/qVXQ5xFPWmmlw82FWNR Ll5u3Wsde5m4l8DlUTDxyQnmL2PsMohuzhav4peYCk3tX1/hgFJWFUBVievLOZECjGLR I1kSCZ7/I1ALrXcNwvZeHPrYrrCiypMMg7tUY= Received: by 10.68.57.5 with SMTP id e5mr4295961pbq.245.1312027381406; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tor-exit-router38-readme.formlessnetworking.net [199.48.147.38]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l7sm1615411pbh.90.2011.07.30.05.02.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:03:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Test Rat To: Michel Talon References: <20110730110312.GA75209@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <86zkjwhuyf.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:02:55 +0400 In-Reply-To: <86zkjwhuyf.fsf@gmail.com> (Test Rat's message of "Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:24:56 +0400") Message-ID: <86ipqkht74.fsf_-_@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: nscd vs. ports that add user/group (Was: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:03:02 -0000 Test Rat writes: >> As a testimonial to the diabolical nature of FreeBSD yesterday i have >> installed a PC with FreeBSD-8.2 RELEASE, using the distributed packages >> (pkg_add -r). When installing gimp, something went south. After some >> checks it was avahi-app which refused to install, the reason being >> that pw groupadd -n avahi failed, with the message: >> "group disappeared during update" > [...] > > Did you have nscd(8) running at the time? Try invalidating its cache. Nevermind previous patch. This one actually works. %% it's still an ugly hack Index: usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c =================================================================== --- usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c (revision 224499) +++ usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c (working copy) @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ pw_update(struct passwd * pwd, char const * user, } } } + system("nscd -I passwd 2>/dev/null >&2"); return rc; } Index: usr.sbin/pw/grupd.c =================================================================== --- usr.sbin/pw/grupd.c (revision 224499) +++ usr.sbin/pw/grupd.c (working copy) @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ gr_update(struct group * grp, char const * group, } if (grbuf != NULL) free(grbuf); + system("nscd -I group 2>/dev/null >&2"); return l; } %%