Re: xfsprogs 2.8.4 installs Polish locale message files?

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:48:08AM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:34:08PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > Hmm.  So remind me again why we made the change to not install
> > our make targets as root.root (user/group) anymore?
> 
> Because there is no "root" group in FreeBSD.  Only "wheel".
> You made the relevant change in version 1.3 of package_globals.m4

Oh, I see my mistake - "id -g root" is not looking for group root,
its still refering to user root (the group of user root).

Hmm, anyone know if theres a general Unix'y way to easily test if
a given group _name_ is valid (i.e. group "root" exists or not?)?

cheers.

-- 
Nathan