cricket-1.0.5_4
Roar Pettersen
roar.pettersen at uib.no
Sat Jun 16 07:19:33 UTC 2007
Hello !
>>> I'm trying to compile Cricket, but I get this error message :
>>> server:/usr/ports/net-mgmt/cricket# make
>>> ===> cricket-1.0.5_4 uses a UID registered to another port.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Can anybody look into this problem ?
>>
>> Did you remove the IGNORE line from the Makefile? It looks like you may
>> have. The IGNORE line explicitly states what the problem is; you
>> shouldn't be able to build the port if IGNORE is set to non-null.
>>
>> IGNORE= uses a UID registered to another port
>
> The IGNORE line is why the build stopped in the first place (notice that the
> messages are the same).
The solution was to comment out this line like this :
$FreeBSD: ports/net-mgmt/cricket/Makefile,v 1.28 2007/04/11 16:20:53 mux
Exp $
#IGNORE= uses a UID registered to another port
Now I was able to compile and install cricket.
>
>> And the UID is:
>>
>> CRICKET_USER?= wwwadm
>> CRICKET_UID?= 81
>> CRICKET_GROUP?= www
>> CRICKET_GID?= 80
>>
>> $ grep wwwadm /usr/ports/UIDs
>> $ grep :8[01]: /usr/ports/UIDs
>> www:*:80:80:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
>> alias:*:81:81:QMail user:/var/qmail/alias:/nonexistent
>> qmaild:*:82:81:QMail user:/var/qmail:/nonexistent
>> qmaill:*:83:81:QMail user:/var/qmail:/nonexistent
>> qmailp:*:84:81:QMail user:/var/qmail:/nonexistent
>>
>> UID 81 is reserved for qmail, which is obviously not what the port
>> should be trying to use. GID 80 is used by Apache and friends, although
>> if I remember right, the cricket user ends up having its default GID set
>> to the same group as what Apache runs as, so CGIs and other whatnots
>> have the ability to access cricket-specific files.
>>
>> As a workaround, you could try setting CRICKET_UID=999 in make.conf or
>> during make time. This UID isn't listed in ports/UIDs, but may become
>> so in the future.
>
> It's possible the port won't do anything with that variable (which is why it
> hasn't been fixed yet with such a simple fix).
>
--
Med vennlig hilsen / Regards;
Roar Pettersen
Universitetet i Bergen - The University of Bergen
Nygardsgt. 5 - N-5020 BERGEN - Norway
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roar.pettersen at it.uib.no - IT-Avd, UiB - http://www.uib.no
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