From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 10 9:11:47 2002 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 9F00E37B400; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4582743E42; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id ABC6B9B3A; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:11:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:11:44 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Reserve uid:gid 92 Message-ID: <20020810161144.GN78857@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Marcus Clarke , ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org References: <1028931447.55175.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1028931447.55175.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 06:17:27PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > I would like to reserve uid and gid 92 for gdm. How do I go about doing > this? Should I update the Porter's Handbook, or does a doc person or > portmgr do that? Thanks. We don't have a formal procedure for this sort of thing. If a gid/uid is not used by a system component or by any other port, ports committers simply used it in their port(s), in the past. Perhaps, for reference's sake, we should change that. Suggestions welcome on how exactly to solve that problem. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message