ports setting UIDs/GIDs broadscape: "chmod -R" likely breaks things!

[Kris Kennaway]

Peter Much wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>   a couple of Ports have in the install part of their Makefiles 
> constructs like this:
> 
> 	@ ${CHOWN} -R pgsql:pgsql ~pgsql/. ;\
> 
> I perceive this as very problematic. For instance: Below ~pgsql 
> there at least two mounted filesystems, both with a .snap directory, 
> which must be GID-operator. 
> Furthermore, ~pgsql is a fine place fore lots of data-import- and 
> -export-directories, each belonging to user or group of the corresponding
> foreign subsystem. 
> 
> Now any time I reinstall or upgrade the port, all of this gets 
> destroyed, and has to be manually recreated.
> 
> Is there any way to configure such unwanted modifications to not
> happen? Maybe some central switch or Makefile.local or anything
> I might have overlooked, which can be added and will persist the
> updating of the ports tree (simply editing these Makefiles is not
> feasible as they will be updated from CVS).
> 
> If not, then I would strongly suggest that Ports maintainers
> modify only and maximally those files+directories which get removed
> and recreated during port upgrades.

Yes, that seems overly broad.  Please bring it up with the respective 
maintainers.

Kris