Re: Can GUB-build stable/2.20 [was Re: Still cannot build GUB with stable/2.20 branch]

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "John Mandereau" <address@hidden>; "Lily devel"
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Can GUB-build stable/2.20 [was Re: Still cannot build GUB
> with stable/2.20 branch]
>
>
>>
>> On typical UNIX-like systems these days, a user account beowulf has both
>> a user id of beowulf and a group id of beowulf.  This is not a necessity
>> as much as a convention making some permission management easier.
>> Typical utilities creating accounts follow that permission.  It seems
>> like on your system, the user "lilypond" (assuming it exists) does not
>> have an accompanying group "lilypond".
>
>
> I don't even have a username "lilypond".  Don't think the VM I used to
> use does either.

I would be surprised if it didn't.

> Not sure why it wants to change group to a non-existent entity.  Does
> it copy the permissions (and memberships) to the remote server?

Depends on what commands are used for copying.

-- 
David Kastrup