Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 17:24:04 GMT From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/142429: USERS directive doesn't work as documented in Porter's Handbook Message-ID: <201001071724.o07HO4rB089209@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201001071730.o07HU3l1096213@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 142429
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: USERS directive doesn't work as documented in Porter's Handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 07 17:30:03 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jason Helfman
>Release: 8.0-RELEASE-p2
>Organization:
Experts Exchange
>Environment:
8.0-RELEASE-p2
>Description:
It seems when using the USERS or GROUPS directives in a Makefile, that the user will be installed, but the INSTALL macros will fail. I've only been able to verify this when the "configure" script is not used.
>How-To-Repeat:
Add to some test port:
USERS= <some user, or new user in UIDs>
do-install:
${INSTALL_SCRIPT} ${WRKSRC}/script.sh ${PREFIX}/bin
.include <bsd.port.mk>
>Fix:
Not known, as of yet. The only thing it seems this could be is either a bug in bsd.port.mk or a bug in the Documentation as for the correct process. In looking at other ports, it seems that it is broken, as scripts that add users use the PRE-INSTALL script method.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/users-and-groups.html
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