Darren J Moffat wrote: > > > All system uid and gid that are used in packages included in the > distribution are allocated out of the reserved space (0-99), there is > lots of prior precedence for this. [...] > >During the package creation, there is file in which we mention whether > >it is root package or usr package. If it is user package, in that case > >we cannot copy files to directories directly under / other than /usr. > > Not after SXCE is stopped being built you don't because IPS does not > make that distinction.
IPS also makes the hardcoded uid limitation go away, as packages will now be able to create their own. (Not that the project team can take advantage of this yet, since IPS delivery is still in the future.) -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
