Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 18:54 Uhr +0100 12.2.2006, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:19:00PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
>>
>>>it is unsatisfying to have users from pkgsrc software using UIDs > 1000.
>>
>>Well, PKG_CREATE_USERGROUP=no and create them by hand.
> 
> 
> How do packages react to that? Does a 'make install' terminate and request
> you to create user foo / group bar, or are you supposed to create them up
> front and announce them in mk.conf?

"make install" fails before any "install" actions are taken and requests 
that you create the appropriate users & groups.  This remains true for 
binary packages as well.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>