Re: pkg/42073: pkg_src makes silly assumptions on gid/uid

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42073; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/42073: pkg_src makes silly assumptions on gid/uid
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:50:27 +0900

 On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:15:04 +0900, Michael MacLeod 
<damnhogs%hotmail.com@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  The patch works=2C ofcourse i edited this manually in the past=2C however
 >  problems still exist when building a package after bootstraping=2C it
 >  seems to attempt to install using gid root.
 > Also some other issues=2C such as expecting /usr/bin/expr and not /bin/expr=
 >   as is the case with this distro.
 
 Workaround: You can put following lines in ${PREFIX}/etc/mk.conf
 ROOT_GROUP=                    wheel
 TOOLS_PLATFORM.expr=   /bin/expr
 
 Of course, it is possible to put ROOT_GROUP on default generated mk.conf and
 handle expr in mk/tools/tools.Linux.mk.