2.0.1

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 30, 2011, at 01:11, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2011-7-30 16:01 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> There had been a ticket or an email (I can't find it now) about build problems on Tiger, but I was able to selfupdate my Tiger G4 to 2.0.0. I'd like to make a Tiger disk image of 2.0.1.
>> 
>> One problem is that, although selfupdate said it created the macports user/group, I get the error "Warning: configured user/group macports does not exist, will build as root". Also, the Accounts section of System Preferences no longer opens, and console.log contains this line:
>> 
>> System Preferences[14212] *** NSRunLoop ignoring exception '*** -[NSCFString replaceCharactersInRange:withString:]: nil argument' that raised during posting of delayed perform with target 443120 and selector 'setCurrentPreference:'
>> 
>> I discovered using "dscl . -read /Users/macports" that the macports user did get created, but that its PrimaryGroupID is "Invalid". Reading the base code, I see where it finds an available user id and creates the user, but I don't see where it tries to find an available group id and create the group. Shouldn't that be done before creating the user? On Snow Leopard, both the user and the group appear to have been created just fine.
> 
> You're welcome to fix these of course, but Tiger has well and truly
> dropped off the supported list.

Nostalgia compels me to persevere. :)

I meant to actually read the base code before sending that. Obviously I now see where the Makefile uses dseditgroup -o create to create the group first. Problem is "sudo dseditgroup -o create -n . macports" succeeds with exit status 0 but no group is created. 


>> Unrelated, right before 2.0.0, we changed the macports user's shell from /dev/null to /usr/bin/false. Would /sbin/nologin be a better choice? I just found out about this program.
> 
> That's for login accounts that are disabled, not non-login accounts.
> None of the non-login accounts created by Apple use it.


Understood, thanks for the explanation.