On 27/07/12 11:02, Martin Costabel wrote:
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> Apple is, as usual, very inventive with their bugs. The problem is that
> the OS upgrade wipes out the Fink-created users, but not the groups.
> Thus there remains GID 266, which fink interprets as "ID 266 already in
> use", and it refuses to create us
On 7/27/12 4:55 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> On 27/07/12 11:02, Martin Costabel wrote:
> []
>> Apple is, as usual, very inventive with their bugs. The problem is that
>> the OS upgrade wipes out the Fink-created users, but not the groups.
>> Thus there remains GID 266, which fink interprets as "ID
Switching to -devel
On 7/27/12 6:09 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 7/27/12 2:02 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>> On 27/07/12 00:33, Daniel Johnson wrote:
>>> I just wanted to document some things I noticed during my Mountain Lion
>>> upgrade.
>>>
>>> First, when running "fink reinstall fink", and
On 7/26/12 1:49 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 7/14/12 12:18 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
>> On 7/13/2012 4:11 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 13, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser
>>> wrote:
>>>
Currently, if a new passwd-package is created, passwd-core gets a
On 7/27/2012 2:46 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 7/26/12 1:49 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> On 7/14/12 12:18 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
>>> On 7/13/2012 4:11 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
On Jul 13, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser
wrote:
> Currently,
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/12 4:55 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> > What is the information on which Fink bases this "UIDs above 250 are
> > free" policy?
> >
>
> It comes down from the mists of time. Maybe it was true at one po
On 7/27/12 12:43 PM, Dustin Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Alexander Hansen
> mailto:alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 7/27/12 4:55 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> > What is the information on which Fink bases this "UIDs above 250 are
> > free" policy?
>
This update addresses a couple of issues:
1) Rather than blindly overwriting existing users, UIDs, and GIDs, the
'update-passwd' script checks whether they exist.
If the username is present, I have assumed that Fink should normally be
able to use that user, since we don't ever use the numeric UID
