Re: pkg/44068: Mailman's build process uses uid/gid of 'daemon' instead of 'mailman' and breaks package

[andras%freeshell.de@localhost]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44068; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: andras%freeshell.de@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/44068: Mailman's build process uses uid/gid of 'daemon'
 instead of 'mailman' and breaks package
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:31:57 +0100

 On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:50:04PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/44068; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/44068: Mailman's build process uses uid/gid of 'daemon'
 >  instead of 'mailman' and breaks package
 > Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:49:46 +0000
 > 
 >  On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:35:00PM +0000, andras%freeshell.de@localhost 
 > wrote:
 >   > The Makefile of Mailman contains unsuitable definitions of these
 >   > two variables:
 >   > 
 >   > MAILMAN_USER
 >   > MAILMAN_GROUP
 >   > 
 >   > Which both default do the daemon user/group, although mailman
 >   > should run under the 'mailman' group and the 'mailman' user.
 >   > >How-To-Repeat:
 >   > Simply compile the latest Mailman version from pkgsrc.
 >   > >Fix:
 >   > Edit /usr/pkgsrc/mail/mailman/Makefile
 >   > 
 >   > Changes made:
 >   >   MAILMAN_USER?=          mailman
 >   >   MAILMAN_GROUP?=         mailman
 >  
 >  The mailman package makefile has defined MAILMAN_USER and
 >  MAILMAN_GROUP this way since the package was first imported in 2002.
 >  
 >  Is your pkgsrc tree corrupted?
 >  
 >  -- 
 >  David A. Holland
 >  dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
 >  
 
 The pkgsrc tree was freshly untared from pkgsrc-current. Is it possible that a
 long build process including lots of packages (using pkg_rolling-replace)
 corrupts the pkgsrc tree?
 
 
 Cheers,
 Andras