ports/157868: mail/mailman: Possible problem with MAIL_GID

[Chris Rees]

On 27 Jun 2011 22:32, "Adam McDougall" <mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu> wrote:
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> On 06/20/11 07:00, Chris Rees wrote:
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>> On 20 June 2011 11:10, Guido Falsi<mad at madpilot.net>  wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:30:58AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
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>>>> On 20 June 2011 10:22, Guido Falsi<mad at madpilot.net>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:57:47PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
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> Today I updated my ports and tried to upgrade my mailman install, but it
failed because I use my own user and group:
>
> ===>  Installing for mailman-2.1.14_5
> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> ===>  Checking if mail/mailman already installed
> ===> Creating users and/or groups.
> ** Cannot find any information about group `postlocal' in /usr/ports/GIDs.
> *** Error code 1
>
> My local user will never be in /usr/ports/GIDs of course.  I am using:
> # more /etc/make.conf
> #For Mailman
> MM_USERNAME=postlocal
> MM_USERID=2012
> MM_GROUPNAME=postlocal
> MM_GROUPID=2012
> MAIL_GID=postlocal
>
> Should I be doing something different?  Please let me know if I can help.
 Thanks.
>

For now, comment out the USERS and GROUPS lines, and try again.

I'll take a look at the users code, and try to get a fix in.

Mind, Florent may object to such a fix on sanity grounds, but I'll see what
I can do.

Chris