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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:17:55 -0800
From:      Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>
Subject:   Re: UIDs question
Message-ID:  <20100113231755.GA10350@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100111203941.GA63794@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
References:  <20100106202657.GD93034@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <a01628141001080209t158f1f02qa3d6b7b077e8aab8@mail.gmail.com> <20100109003655.GD52892@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <20100111203941.GA63794@eggman.experts-exchange.com>

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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:39:41PM -0800, Jason thus spake:
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if there is a way to have the port install the user using
>>>> the native USERS or GROUPS directives in the do-install phase with the
>>>> INSTALL macros, or if there is a more suggested, or conventional, way of
>>>> doing this operation.
>>>
>>>Would you mind putting the files somewhere and showing us the error
>>>log? I am aware of one caveat at the moment, which is that you can't
>>>use users/groups created with USERS/GROUPS in pkg-plist. Every typical
>>>use case with directives contained in Makefile should be fine AFAIK.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Florent Thoumie
>>>flz@FreeBSD.org
>>>FreeBSD Committer
>>>
>>
>>I've uploaded to pastebin, and hope this is enough to go on. Please let me
>>know if it is not, and I will make the information needed available.
>>
>>http://freebsd.pastebin.com/m359b2c91
>
>I will attach the text of the pastebin for convenience.

I found that the local UIDs files was malformed, and once the formatting was
fixed, it worked as it should.

-jason



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