Re: Handle /usr/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list locally

if someone can checkout from git and add to their ports tree, they can 
probably follow simple instructions to add to user.list. (or skip the 
@newuser and tell them to add the user by hand).

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  Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 8 August 2026 18:35:29 Christian Schulte <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am 08.08.2026 um 17:12 schrieb Stuart Henderson:
>> Just pick a number higher or lower than the range in use and add it
>> locally. Suggest doing this sat the top or middle of the list rather
>> than the end to reduce the chance of merge conflicts in user.list
> That would work locally on a single machine indeed. Means I cannot
> provide a Github repo with the port, because checking that out will not
> contain that db file. It is an open source project. Would not make sense
> to add it to the ports tree. The number of people interested in using it
> is somewhere below two.
>
> It has
>
> WANTLIB = c m stdthreads ecpg pgtypes
> LIB_DEPENDS = databases/postgresql devel/libstdthreads
>
> I could "abuse" the user created by databases/postgresql (_postgresql).
> Is it safe to do that? That user comes from postgresql-server. Port just
> needs client libraries so would then need to depend on the server
> package but I don't know how to do that properly or if that really is my
> only option.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christian