Re: [Patch] to bypass automatic detection of nobody group

2006-06-19 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:05:19AM +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > Then to fix the issue I patch configure.ac to have a --with-nobody-group > which > allow to bypass the automatic detection and directly set the "nobody" group. Looks like a good idea to me. I've updated CVS with this functionali

[Patch] to bypass automatic detection of nobody group

2006-06-16 Thread Olivier Thauvin
I have to fix an issue in the mandriva rpm of rsync. On the build computer, both nobody and nogroup exists but the right group to use is 'nogroup' [1]. The rsync configure.ac first check if 'nobody' group exists, which is true. You can't change the current check, there is no perfect way to pleas