ahh that makes sense now ;) I thought this was suppose to replace passed like in my uidgid branch, I was going to say to counter that issue I created pastiest ownership scripts that auto generated. But since that isn't' the case I'll go back to my quiet corner and let the people that know wants going on talk and not interrupt ;)
And for sure arm been a while I missed you guys so I decided to make more time for fink again. ;) --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2012-05-10, at 8:08 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: > Hi Justin. Long time no see :) > > Actually, this particular user is only being used during "fink build." No > files are supposed to belong to that user at the end of the build process. > So there shouldn't be a problem. > > (But maybe we should, if we don't already, do a validator check to make sure > that no files are owed by fink-bld.) > > -- Dave > > > On May 10, 2012, at 9:33 AM, TheSin wrote: > >> the problem with it IIRC from WAY BACK want I worked on my uidgid branch is >> that dpkg stores the uid/gid and did not the name/group, so if the uid >> differs when a deb is installed instead of the the fink build process it >> will have the wrong perms, unless things have changed since then. >> --- >> TS >> http://www.southofheaven.org/ >> Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! >> >> On 2012-05-10, at 6:33 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: >> >>> I think Dustin's approach is a good one -- less intrusive to users' systems. >>> >>> -- Dave >>> >>> On May 10, 2012, at 4:32 AM, Dustin Cartwright wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Alexander Hansen >>>> <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> We're approaching the May 16 planned deadline for a new Fink (0.33.0) >>>> release. The current plan is to incorporate: >>>> >>>> 2) moving creation of the fink-bld user from passwd-fink-bld into fink, >>>> as per https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/30 . >>>> Note that if there is already a fink-bld user, fink recognizes it. This >>>> will also entail using a dummy passwd-fink-bld package in the 10.7/ tree >>>> to replace the real package, and updating passwd in the 10.4/ tree so >>>> that it doesn't generate the passwd-fink-bld user anymore. >>>> >>>> I hacked together an alternative to this branch, which creates the >>>> fink-bld user and group during selfupdate or bootstrap, but selects a UID >>>> which is not on the system rather than using a fixed one: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/dustinac/fink/commits/add-fink-bld >>>> >>>> Some background: Currently, fink-bld is always created with UID 266. As >>>> was discussed on fink-core, this could be a problem in the rare case that >>>> UID 266 has already been assigned to a different user on the system prior >>>> to installing or updating fink. With an autoselected UID, there is no risk >>>> of such a collision. >>>> >>>> Dustin >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Live Security Virtual Conference >>>> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >>>> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions >>>> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware >>>> threats. >>>> http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/_______________________________________________ >>>> Fink-devel mailing list >>>> Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> List archive: >>>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel >>>> Subscription management: >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Live Security Virtual Conference >>> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >>> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions >>> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware >>> threats. >>> http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/_______________________________________________ >>> Fink-devel mailing list >>> Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> List archive: >>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel >>> Subscription management: >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
