On 17 Sep 2017, at 00:15, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> File ownership can be preserved on disk images, but that ownership is
> preserved by uid and gid, not by user name and group name.
I suspected this but didn't know how it actually works on OS X.
>> MP could also checked
On Sep 16, 2017, at 04:57, db wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2017, at 23:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> MacPorts and ports can add users, but MacPorts doesn't remove them. I'm not
>> sure how we could change that. Suppose you install a port that has a user
>> that needs to own some data, such as
On 16 Sep 2017, at 16:03, Rainer Müller wrote:
> As you just run it on your system, you know how long that will take.
> Clearly not an option to do this before/after every install/uninstall.
Only those that create users.
> And what would you gain from that? A free uid. They
On 2017-09-16 11:57, db wrote:
> Shouldn't MP delete it if no files are owned by that user? In any case, it
> could notify during installation that a user was created and upon
> uninstallation that a user still owns files (and which) or not, and if not,
> it could give the option to delete it.
On 15 Sep 2017, at 23:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> MacPorts and ports can add users, but MacPorts doesn't remove them. I'm not
> sure how we could change that. Suppose you install a port that has a user
> that needs to own some data, such as postresql96-server. You then
On 2017-09-15 20:56, db wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2017, at 18:06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Not always, because many ports use local variables when setting the home
>> directory, so you then have to find the place in the Portfile where that
>> local variable is set. And also,
On 15 Sep 2017, at 18:06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Not always, because many ports use local variables when setting the home
> directory, so you then have to find the place in the Portfile where that
> local variable is set. And also, many ports split the add_users
> On Sep 15, 2017, at 07:09, db wrote:
>
> On 15 Sep 2017, at 04:32, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I recently reinstalled macOS and, during the setup process, restored from a
>> Time Machine backup. One would think that after restoration, the machine
>>
On Sep 14, 2017, at 10:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I had numerous ports installed that create their own user accounts with
> add_users or add_user, and of course MacPorts has its macports user. For each
> of these users, I could select if I wanted the user to be
On 15 Sep 2017, at 04:32, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I recently reinstalled macOS and, during the setup process, restored from a
> Time Machine backup. One would think that after restoration, the machine
> would be in a state sufficiently similar to the one it was in at
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