Re: Bug#17458: fidogate: binary-arch tries to chown to a non-existent user
Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 12:46:47PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote:
>
> > > and you can't assume it's
> > > part of a passwd file on all machines fidogate is being built on.
> >
> > Ok, but how should I solve this problem?
>
> Do the chown in the postinst, after you've created the relevant user.
How about chowning it to a certain number in the regular install
procedure?
>
> > If you install the binary package, there's no problem
> > building my source package.
>
> Yeah, that's great for users of machines that it isn't yet built on, isn't
> it?
>
>
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