Subject: Re: Support adding admin users/groups via defs.${OPSYS}.mk
To: Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.unixbsd.org>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/11/2004 10:43:47
On Sunday 11 January 2004 05:08, Juan RP wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Actually, we have a problem with pkgsrc, when we want to install a package
> which needs to create new users/groups in some platforms (FreeBSD, BSD/OS,
> Darwin, etc)...
>
> I would like to commit this patch, and modify all defs.${OPSYS}.mk files,
> with that change all platforms should be able to create users/groups when
> using PKG_{USERS,GROUPS}.
>
> This patch changes defs.FreeBSD.mk, which was my test system.

So you define all these variables _only_ in FreeBSD, and then you use them
directly in install...  So other platforms will break because missing variable
values (at least NetBSD)...

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/