On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Jason <jhelf...@e-e.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to building ports, however I have started to get the hang of > things. > > I am not building any ports that I intend on submitting to FreeBSD, yet, > however maybe that isn't too far off :) > > I've used a guide I found to create a local ports repository that is working > out wonderfully with the existing ports tree under /usr/ports > > My tree is under /usr/ports/local, and I found a way to integrate a local > UIDs and GIDs file, by setting this variable in my Makefile: > > UID_FILES:=${PORTSDIR}/local/UIDs > > When I go to install my port it installs the user as expected, however it > fails on the ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} function. I understand this is just using > "install" with the appropriate flags. Obviously, the port doesn't install. > > If I run it again, the user is already on the system, and the port installs > successfully. > > I was wondering if there is a way to have the port install the user using > the native USERS or GROUPS directives in the do-install phase with the > INSTALL macros, or if there is a more suggested, or conventional, way of > doing this operation.
Would you mind putting the files somewhere and showing us the error log? I am aware of one caveat at the moment, which is that you can't use users/groups created with USERS/GROUPS in pkg-plist. Every typical use case with directives contained in Makefile should be fine AFAIK. -- Florent Thoumie f...@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"