ports/116448: devel/dbus intolerent of existing 556 GID

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:55:25PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:54 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:52:09PM +0000, marcus at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > > Synopsis: devel/dbus intolerent of existing 556 GID
> >  
> > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > > State-Changed-By: marcus
> > > State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 18 21:50:42 UTC 2007
> > > State-Changed-Why: 
> > > 556 has been allocated to messagebus via /usr/ports/GIDs.  If you absolutely
> > > need this GID for something else, you need to pre-create the messagebus
> > > group with a GID that works for you.
> > 
> > This is disappointing - why must it be 556?  The reason I had it already
> > defined is because the subversion install creates a 'svn' group and
> > doesn't specify a GID.  To keep this from happening, why cannot we commit
> > /usr/ports/GIDs to /usr/src/etc/group to better reserve them?
> 
> I think it was done this way as not all ports committers have src bits.
> Plus, not everyone installs all ports, so mandating UIDs and GIDs on all
> systems might be a waste.  But as I said, you aren't restricted to 556.
> You can create a messagebus group before installing dbus, and the port
> will simply use that group with whatever gid you assign it.

I'm curious - why doesn't dbus then just use 'pw' to create the group
with an unspecified GID like the svn port does?  Why was this so
anonying?  I was trying to build evolution-exchange before going to work
- and of course the build broke 1/2 thru.  Which I didn't notice until I
got home.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)