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[Jason Flatt <jflatt AT sourcemage.org>]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 06:05 am, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Hi people !
>
> A small detail has been pointed out by David Brown in [0] about
> create_account and create_group functions from the libaccount. Where is
> the right place in spells for them ? I look for this information in the
> wiki, but all that I found about this is the page[1] (which is outdated
> and hopelessly not referenced anywhere - that would be the time to do
> this).
> People placed them in PRE_BUILD, BUILD, INSTALL, I used to put them in
> FINAL, since it is additional stuff. But I finally wonder if it should
> not come at the highest level of building, for instance at the beginning
> of PRE_BUILD, because if the group or the account fails to be created,
> the software being installed will surely not work, so it is useless to
> compile and install it.
>
> Your thoughts ??
>
> [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9351
> [1] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=UID%2FGID

They should at the very last be in BUILD before default_build, or what might 
be there to replace that, not just for the reason you stated (account 
creation failure), but also because some programs use that information during 
the ./configure process.

I did find a brief and more current reference to those functions here, in the 
GRIMOIRE NOTES area of Section 3:
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=GrimoireGurusHandbook

But they probably should also be here:
http://www.sourcemage.org/Spell-Handbook

-- 
Jason Flatt
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