Re: pkg/44068: Mailman's build process uses uid/gid of 'daemon' instead of 'mailman' and breaks package

[andras%freeshell.de@localhost]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44068; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: andras%freeshell.de@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/44068: Mailman's build process uses uid/gid of 'daemon'
 instead of 'mailman' and breaks package
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:50:19 +0100

 On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:05:03AM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/44068; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/44068: Mailman's build process uses uid/gid of 'daemon'
 >  instead of 'mailman' and breaks package
 > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:03:00 +0900
 > 
 >  On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:55:02 +0900, <andras%freeshell.de@localhost> wrote:
 >  
 >  >  make resolves ${MAILMAN_GROUP:Q} and ${MAILMAN_MAILGROUP:Q} to 'daemon', 
 > which
 >  >  subsequently causes troubles.
 >  
 >  Don't you have those settings in your /etc/mk.conf?
 >  
 >  -- 
 >  OBATA Akio / obache%NetBSD.org@localhost
 >  
 
 
 I didn't have the settings in /etc/mk.conf.
 
 When I added
 
 MAILMAN_GROUP=mailman
 MAILMAN_MAILGROUP=mailman
 
 to /etc/mk.conf configuring worked like expected.
 
 There have been discussions in the past about setting the variables manually.
 Anyhow: a user without (detailed) knowledge of the build process is likely to
 have a broken installation of mailman without manual setting of MAILMAN_GROUP
 and MAILMAN_MAILGROUP in /etc/mk.conf.
 
 Shouldn't those variables be accessible from the option framework? Just a
 suggestion...
 
 
 Cheers,
 Andras