From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 14:10:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C9616A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D127943D6A for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id AE7F31AE; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:09:59 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:09:59 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: FreeBSD-Ports Message-ID: <20040112220959.GH66765@seekingfire.com> References: <20040112154832.GI491@seekingfire.com> <20040112163450.B150E17DB9@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040112193806.GC52964@seekingfire.com> <20040112215909.GL1667@k7.mavetju> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040112215909.GL1667@k7.mavetju> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers Subject: Re: UID conflict: Both database/firebird and net/quagga apeear to use UID 90 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:10:03 -0000 On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:59:09AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:38:06PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:34:50AM -0600, Pete Fritchman wrote: > > > If we keep all the UIDs documented there, we should'd have the problem of > > > people adding a new port with a duplicate UID. I'm sure there are a ton > > > of ports that add users with UIDs that are _not_ documented there; we > > > should probably fix that as we come across them. > > > > There should be a way to automatically catch that. Perhaps a post-build > > checksum against /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group on an automated > > ports-building box. > > There is. Well, UIDs allocated. In the porters manual there is a > list of UIDs (chapter 15.11). The first one in there wins! To clarify, I meant that there should be a way to automatically catch the ports that /don't/ follow that process. It could be added as one of the build checks for the automatic port building machines. -T -- Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way. - Robert Heinlein