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

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On 8/15/2014 3:01 PM, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * 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).

Ok, but why did it start caring what the uid is in the first place? I 
could have sworn I've done similar upgrades in the past (e.g. postfix, 
dovecot), but perhaps I just happened to end up with the same uid?
Needing to set a variable to upgrade any package that creates a user is 
less than ideal.

Anyway, I fixed the problem by just changing the uid of the tomcat 
user.  It turned out I didn't have as many files as I though I did on 
the system that I was upgrading, so chowning them all wasn't a bit deal.

Eric