Amanda; And creating user accounts BEFORE the build process

I am trying to make a package for amanda (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) http://www.amanda.org.
I have gotten everything to run fine, but the way the devs have set up their configure file (and the resulting build process),
I HAVE to specify a user account that the program will run as. If I do not specify (and create an account) the PKGBUILD will not run. Is this normal?
Is there a way to make the PKGBUILD create an account and a group? This account and group are need both DURING the build and during the install.
It has to be a pre-existing user account. Here is my PKGBUILD script:
pkgname=amanda
pkgver=2.6.0p1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver"
url="http://www.amanda.org/"
license=('BSD')
depends=("glibc")
#If you need amplot and/or samba support (for backing up windows clients) delete the line above and uncomment the line below this line
#depends=("glibc" "samba" "gnuplot")
install=(amanda.install)
arch=('x86_64' 'i686')
source=(
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/amanda/amanda-2.6.0p1.tar.gz
md5sums=('afadad80e0a27963a24b510755470983')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/amanda-2.6.0p1
# These config options are documented at:
# http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation/Installing_Amanda_Source
./configure CFLAGS="-03 -Wall" \
--with-user=amanda \
--with-group=backup \
--prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr/local \
--with-amperldir=$startdir/pkg/usr/local/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
make || return 1
make install prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr/local
I would really appreciate some help (this is my first pkg)
Also remember; this will not finish building without creating a user and a group
#groupadd backup
#useradd -g backup amanda
Last edited by timetrap (2008-06-19 19:08:09)

I didn't take it any farther than the first post. I became frustrated with the chicken/egg relationship with account/makepkg.
The package works (as long as the user accounts are created first) if you can figure out a way around this issue feel free to update the pkg (then upload it to AUR).
The nobody/nobody idea didn't work for me, I cannot remember the reason why. It had something to do with permissions. Let me know if you need any help.
Last edited by timetrap (2009-01-01 03:12:17)

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