Re: can't upgrade apache tomcat package, complains about tomcat user

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2014-08-15 at 19:19 BST, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:

> I get this error when trying to upgrade an installation of Apache Tomcat:
> 
> installing apache-tomcat-6.0.41...
> ===========================================================================
> The following users need to be created for apache-tomcat-6.0.41:
> 
>         tomcat (uid = 1076): tomcat, /usr/pkg/share/tomcat, /bin/sh
> 
> ===========================================================================
> pkg_install warnings: 1, errors: 1
> pkg_install error log can be found in /var/db/pkgin/pkg_install-err.log
> 
> but I already have a tomcat user, although with a different uid. Why is this
> complaining?

This is what this change fixes:

  
https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commit/dd0143bde586f20b991b42a25015b19f0dcae0b8

but I think there was some objection to it, hence why I haven't
committed it yet (we use it for our SmartOS packages and set
PKGINSTALL_IGNORE_UIDGID=yes by default).

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