Re: pkg/44048: Prebuilt mailman pkg enforces uid/gid.

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44048; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/44048: Prebuilt mailman pkg enforces uid/gid.
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 21:19:52 +0000

 On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 05:45:04PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
  >  On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:20:00PM +0000, liman%cafax.se@localhost wrote:
  >  >  It would be appreciated if the +INSTALL script took note of
  >  >  any existing user/group "mailman" and used the already exising
  >  >  UID/GID for the installation.
  >  
  >  The problem here is that the uid/gid is hard-coded in mailman itself.
 
 If that were true, the package would be broken, because the package
 makefile does *not* hardcode the value. Fortunately, it's not true.
 
 There must be something wrong happening with PKG_USERS and PKG_GROUPS
 in the bulk build.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost