On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:15:37PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > > What's special about dynamic u/gids? You just make sure the user/group > > exists in the preinst, then let dpkg unpack it to the correct id. No need > > for statoverrides at all. > The name of the user/group must be used in the data.tar.gz, which can > only happen if the package is build on a system that has that group. > That might not be possible with autobuilders.
Seems like either fakeroot could be enhanced to handle that, or maybe such packages should be restricted to being built with sudo with the appropriate checks in debian/rules to ensure that either the user already exists, or that running adduser in debian/rules succeeds. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
