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



The distro already has a /etc/mk.conf is is possible to tell bootstrap to use /etc/mk.conf and not create and use /usr/pkgsrc/etc/mk.conf?

Regards Michael

> From: obache%netbsd.org@localhost
> To: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost; gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost; pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost; damnhogs%hotmail.com@localhost
> Subject: Re: pkg/42073: pkg_src makes silly assumptions on gid/uid
> CC:
> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:55:02 +0000
>
> 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
> Cc:
> 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.
>


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