On 2008/09/26 10:20, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > Hello All, > > I am cleaning up a port to be imported into the tree, and I noticed > that even though there are appropriate @newuser and @newgroup lines > in the PLIST, these users are not created by the "make repackage" > command, or any other command for that matter. According to pkg_add(1) > the users will be created when the package is installed, but this > doesn't work so well when the package requires those users when > built, what can I do to fix this?
Patch the build system in the software you're porting. You can't create those users during port build, because port build is run as an unprivileged user.
