It didn't do the right thing for me, apparently: Adding user and group fink-bld for building packages unprivileged No packages to install.
The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. Alexanders-MacBook-Pro:my_fink hansen$ id fink-bld uid=4294967294(fink-bld) gid=4294967294(nobody) groups=4294967294(nobody),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),61(localaccounts) (OS 10.7.4, if it matters) On 5/10/12 1:32 AM, Dustin Cartwright wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Alexander Hansen > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com <mailto:alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > We're approaching the May 16 planned deadline for a new Fink (0.33.0) > release. The current plan is to incorporate: > > 2) moving creation of the fink-bld user from passwd-fink-bld into fink, > as per https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/30 . > Note that if there is already a fink-bld user, fink recognizes it. This > will also entail using a dummy passwd-fink-bld package in the 10.7/ tree > to replace the real package, and updating passwd in the 10.4/ tree so > that it doesn't generate the passwd-fink-bld user anymore. > > > I hacked together an alternative to this branch, which creates the > fink-bld user and group during selfupdate or bootstrap, but selects a > UID which is not on the system rather than using a fixed one: > > https://github.com/dustinac/fink/commits/add-fink-bld > > Some background: Currently, fink-bld is always created with UID 266. As > was discussed on fink-core, this could be a problem in the rare case > that UID 266 has already been assigned to a different user on the system > prior to installing or updating fink. With an autoselected UID, there is > no risk of such a collision. > > Dustin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
