Patch: Solaris packages don't create privsep user or group

[Tim Rice]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Darren Tucker wrote:

> Tim Rice wrote:
> > I put a lot of work into being able to build/install a test package
> > without touching important files on what may be a production system.
>
> Is there any reason you don't use pkgadd -R for your testing instead?
> (Assuming it's available on all supported SysV platforms). It would

No, Seems to be Solaris only.

> allow you to simplify buildpkg and help ensure that Jumpstart installs
> continue to work. You could also test and deploy the same packages
> rather than rebuilding them.
>
> See attachment for example scaffolding, tested on Solaris 7 only.

Nice. Too bad UnixWare doesn't support -R. Could have saved some work.

I'm going wrap groupadd/useradd around a test -z "${TEST_DIR}"


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