On 20 December 2012 23:01, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > To the OP, I suggest finding out what legitimately fails in the build when > the user doesn't exist and patching the build system to suck less. When > you're done, send your improvements upstream. >
That would be ideal, but I don't have the time or skill to do that, especially at this time of year. Amanda is a fairly popular backup solution, I'm sure others more talented than I have investigated it and if they can't fix it, I don't like my chances of saving the day. On 21 December 2012 05:52, Allen Li <[email protected]> wrote: > My suggestion would be to simply fail out if the user doesn't exist and > have the user create the user himself. (Include the "sudo adduser > something" that needs to be run in the error message for simplicity). > That might be the best solution; it avoids anything having to run as root (makepkg and/or $HELPER), and makes it ample clear to the user what the situation is.
