Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/rt4

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:

> 1.  can we make the rt4 package use a specific user, so that we can
> use all the infrastructure for that we already have?

Yes, this seems the ay to go.

> 2.  can the group ownership be changed at install time if we go with
> the "must be built as root" approach?

They have  --with-rt-group but no  --with-rt-user, we would have to use
 --with-rt-group=$(RT_GROUP)
 --with-bin-owner=$(RT_USER) 
 --with-libs-owner=$(RT_USER)
  
> 3.  can pkg_comp be modified to be more savvy about uids and gids used
> to build?

Well, it looked insane to ask pkg_comp to know inside the chroot about
the user that did su root before.

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