Re: Chaging uid/gid at binary install

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:00:12PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:48:49 +0900, Masao Uebayashi 
> <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:53:37PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> >>On Jul 10,  8:50am, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> >>}
> >>} Can pkgsrc change uid/gid at binary install time?
> >>
> >>     Look up SPECIAL_PERMS in the Pkgsrc guide.  When you use it, an
> >>INSTALL script is automatically generated which will set the
> >>permissions on the specified files.
> >>
> >>} Is it possible to do that in theory?
> >>
> >>     Why would it not be?
> >
> >IIUC, those uids/gids must be referred to by symbol (user/group
> >name), instead of by numeric values.
> >
> >I'm not sure what else have to be assured, thus asking here.
> 
> If you want to assign certain UID to the user, you can use
>  PKG_UID.foo=500

And that is build time operation, right?

I'm asking if something like this works:

        % env PKG_UID.foo=500 pkg_add foo-1.2.3.tgz