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authortv <tv>2004-03-29 02:22:32 +0000
committertv <tv>2004-03-29 02:22:32 +0000
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Add more caveat text.
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: README.Interix,v 1.5 2004/03/27 14:46:59 grant Exp $
+$NetBSD: README.Interix,v 1.6 2004/03/29 02:22:32 tv Exp $
Please read the general README file as well.
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ for Windows 2000, XP, and 2003. SFU can be downloaded from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/
+Services for Unix 3.5 (current as of this writing) has been tested. 3.0 may
+work, but is not officially supported.
+
At an absolute minimum, the following packages must be installed from the
Windows Services for Unix 3.5 distribution in order to use bootstrap-pkgsrc:
@@ -34,20 +37,30 @@ remains as case-insensitive, then "bootstrap" will require the
KNOWN CAVEATS
+* The package imanager (either the pkgsrc "su" user, or the user
+ running "pkg_add") must be a member of the local Administrators
+ group. Such a user must also be used to run the bootstrap. This is
+ slightly relaxed from the normal pkgsrc requirement of "root".
+
+* The package manager should use a umask of 022. "make install" will
+ automatically complain if this is not the case. This ensures that
+ directories written in /var/db/pkg are Administrators-group writeable.
+
* It is not necessary, in general, to have a "root" user on the Windows
system; any member of the local Administrators group will suffice.
However, some packages currently assume that the user named "root" is
- the privileged user (these will eventually be fixed). To accomodate
+ the privileged user (these will eventually be fixed). To accommodate
these, you may create such a user; make sure it is in the local group
Administrators.
* The popular Interix binary packages from http://www.interopsystems.com/
- use OpenBSD's pkg_* tools and occupy the /var/db/pkg directory (though
- the packages install to /usr/local). If you want to have both kinds of
- packages installed in the system, supply "--pkgdbdir=DIRECTORY" to
- "bootstrap" to use an alternative package database directory.
+ use an older version of pkgsrc's pkg_* tools and occupy the /var/db/pkg
+ directory (though the packages install to /usr/local). If you want to
+ have both kinds of packages installed in the system, supply the option
+ "--pkgdbdir=DIRECTORY" to "bootstrap".
* On Windows under Interix, the "root" user is actually named
"Administrator". This may require some modification to pkgsrc to
introduce a parameterized root user for installation purposes.
- (Likewise, the bootstrap script sets the root group to "+Administrators".)
+ (Likewise, the bootstrap script sets the root group to
+ "+Administrators".)