On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:25:03PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 23-Feb-02 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Sounds like a botched (or not run) "mergemaster" execution: > > > > No - mergemaster will croak because it runs mtree to build its temp > > directory, so if you're trying to update a pre-smmsp system you have > > to add the smmsp user and group manually. > > I think this is a bug but can't think of a clean way to work around it.
I can think of a two "clean" ways... but it ain't pretty. 1) Do not enter users in the BSD.*.dist files by 'uname,' but only by 'uid.' But this makes the files more difficult to maintain and generally icky. 2) Keep 'uname's in BSD.*.dist files, but use the distributed src/etc/master.passwd to process the BSD.*.dist files into a format with 'uid's on the fly during buildworld-installworld. These versions would only be built during buildworld and only used by the mtree(8) commands during installworld. The source BSD.*.dist files would be the ones actually installed of course. Obviously, one could do the same with groups. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message