J P wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have just a very quick question.  I had no troubles
> setting up fink and X11, but when I installed the
> xinvaders fink package in order to test x11, fink
> wanted to install the passwd package and add users to
> the netinfo database as part of the xinvaders install.
>  I'm kind of at a loss as to why a simple game would
> want to take these steps (I allowed it to install the
> passwd package but I did not allow it to modify the
> Netinfo database).  I neglected to copy the fink
> output regarding this (and subsequent purge/reinstall
> attempts don't result in it asking again about
> modifying the Netinfo database, even though I refused
> to let it do so before), but it looked something like
> this:
> 
> http://fink.opendarwin.org/build/2006-03-09/i386/logs/xinvaders.log

In that output you see lines

chgrp games 
/Volumes/SandBox/fink/sw/src/fink.build/root-xinvaders-2.1.2-3/Volumes/SandBox/fink/sw/bin/xinvaders

and

chgrp games 
/Volumes/SandBox/fink/sw/src/fink.build/root-xinvaders-2.1.2-3/Volumes/SandBox/fink/sw/var/games/xinvaders

These will fail if you don't have a group "games" on your system. By 
default, such a group doesn't exist on MacOSX; the passwd package 
installs it by modifying the netinfo database.

-- 
Martin


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