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

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

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On 8 August 2026 13:28:37 Christian Schulte <cs@schulte.it> wrote:

Hi porters,

the Porting Guide [1] mentions this:

"20. If the application needs to create a user or a group, choose the

lowest free id from /usr/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list for your port

to use and don't forget to include that file in your commit."

I would like to create a port e.g. at /usr/ports/localhost/localport

which needs to add a user. How to handle the user.list file, if it is

not going to get committed? Whatever user id I would choose, it will

certainly lead to conflicts whenever some other port starts using the

same ids. How to handle this locally without conflicting with others?

Regards,

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Christian

[1] <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html>