PKG_USERS represents the users to create for the package. It is a
space-separated list of elements of the form
user:group[:[userid][:[descr][:[home][:shell]]]]
Only the user and group are required; everything else is optional,
but the colons must be in the right places when specifying optional
bits. Note that if the description contains spaces, then spaces
should be double backslash-escaped, e.g.
foo:foogrp::The\\ Foomister
PKG_GROUPS represents the groups to create for the package. It is a
space-separated list of elements of the form
group[:groupid]
Only the group is required; the groupid is optional.
This solves the problem of what to do when there is more than one user or
group needed for a package, e.g. qmail. Also add a bit more error-checking
to the INSTALL/DEINSTALL scripts.
now work on Darwin, and then the discussion about allowing spaces in
user/group names, make these scripts work even if the inputs contain
spaces. Yes, this is overkill, but after doing all of the work, I didn't
want to waste it.
names of the scripts and is no longer a MLINKS-type variable. The scripts
are copied into ${RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR} which defaults to /etc/rc.d for now.
It's unclear if Linux/Solaris would set RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR to something else.
many of the tasks that need to be done when package is installed or
deinstalled:
* creating user/group for the package,
* creating and removing directories with special permissions and
ownership,
* copying config files to their final locations, and removing them
at deinstall time if they don't differ from the example ones,
* reminding the package admin of files he may want to customize or
of files/directories he may want to remove.
