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

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

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

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%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: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:45:50 +0000

 On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 05:55:02PM +0000, andras%freeshell.de@localhost wrote:
  >  To clear things up a litte: you are absolutely right about the
  >  contents of /usr/pkgsrc/mail/mailman/Makefile:
  >  
  >  MAILMAN_USER?=          mailman
  >  MAILMAN_GROUP?=         mailman
 
 Right, so MAILMAN_USER and MAILMAN_GROUP both default to "mailman".
 
  >  I posted the wrong lines in the heat of the battle. Mea culpa. What I
  >  _actually_ wanted to propose as a temporary fix was this:
  >  
  >  /usr/pkgsrc/mail/mailman/Makefile:
  >  
  >  + CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-groupname=mailman
  >  + CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-mail-gid=mailman
  >  - CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-groupname=${MAILMAN_GROUP:Q}
  >  - CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-mail-gid=${MAILMAN_MAILGROUP:Q}
 
 ...but if MAILMAN_GROUP defaults to "mailman", this shouldn't be
 necessary, and:
 
  >  make resolves ${MAILMAN_GROUP:Q} and ${MAILMAN_MAILGROUP:Q} to
  > 'daemon', which subsequently causes troubles.
 
 ...this shouldn't be happening at all.
 
 Well, at least MAILMAN_GROUP shouldn't be. It does appear that
 MAILMAN_MAILGROUP defaults to "daemon".
 
 (Do I want to know why mailman needs to know in advance the group that
 mail stuff will run as? Probably not.)
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost