On 9/7/06, Fábio Mierlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make a recipe for the Firebird database, it really sucks.
>
> There's 22K of patch until now, most of then is due hardcode "root"
> strings.
Ouch. How are you patching that? It's interesting to make that modular
so that the patch gets accepted by them, too.
> The "make install" is the worst thing, it is interactive and change
> a lot of files in /System/Settings.
>
> I don't look at recipes for others "server" applications, but what's
> the rules for run daemon as non root?
I haven't seen any task written for non-superusers yet, but I think
you can safely grep for the user you expect to run with at /etc/passwd
and then 'sudo' exec the daemon as that user if it exists.
> And how to allow some installers add users, groups and change
> some files in /System/Settings?
That's a good question. We don't have a good way to do that now, but I
think it should be addressed by both Compile and InstallPackage. I can
think of something like Resources/{ExpectedUsers,ExpectedGroups} as a
good solution..
--
Lucas
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