On Mar 2, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: >> To test converting from adduser to add_users I used port to deactivate zope, >> used dscl to rm a user record and then used port to activate zope which >> ended with this error: >> ... >> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: xinstall: Unknown user zope >> ... > > That seems like something that people shouldn't do (or should expect to cause > problems).
Agreed, I am still interested if there is a reason to not execute add_users at activate. Build and activate seem to be logical choices to me. I could imagine restoring /opt/local from a backup to a new system and a quick deactivate and activate could restore system users and groups. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
