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Re: What to do if $PACKAGE needs $ACCOUNT to _build_



On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 20:51:00 +0200, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-mentors@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>I am currently preparing packages for rrfw (see bug#186828). The
>daemons that come with rrfw run as user rrfw, and the Makefiles of
>that package insist on chowning some files to rrfw at build time. That
>- of course - fails when the rrfw account does not exist at build
>time.

The problem has been solved by upstream providing a configure option
avoiding the chowning of these files. Thanks for this discussion. I
have learned a lot.

Greetings
Marc

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