On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:46:59PM +0200, Denys Duchier wrote:
> What ebuild was responsible for this change?  If it was slocate, then
> this still does not explain the situation since slocate-2.7-r2.ebuild
> (which is the ebuild installed on my system) is careful to chown files
> and directories to the proper user (root) and group (slocate).  I
> checked the CVS history of that ebuild and it appears to have done the
> right thing from the start.  So what gives?
> I really wish to understand what went wrong.  As before, I'd be
> grateful for any hints.
Slocate used to add it's own userid to your system. Since then, that was
integrated into the initial /etc/passwd included in baselayout, and the
UID# was changed in the process to avoid a conflict with something else.


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