Re: pkgsrc-created user and group ids

[Étienne <etienne.pub%magickarpet.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:25:46PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:

> > Is there a way to tell pkgsrc to do this generally, or is it OS-specific?
> 
> One OS independent way to do this might be (slightly tweaked version
> of something that has been suggested before)
> 
> - Add pkgsrc/defaults/users & pkgsrc/defaults/groups which contain
> lines of username:uid and groupname:gid respectively
> 
> - If a package defines PKG_USERS or PKG_GROUPS and matches the
> username or groupname in the, use the uid/gid
> 
> - Otherwise pick the uid/gid as now (but show a warning for pkglint)

I can't find any documentation about this. Could you point me to it ?

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Étienne