Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:27:37 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ggombert@imatowns.com Subject: Re: Install World fails in -Current Message-ID: <3C7895E9.A79E91CA@DougBarton.net> References: <200202221338.g1MDceE75453@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <xzpeljdq8mx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> 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.
Every time I suggest adding special handling for master.passwd or group
people scream because they are afraid that they'll accidentally
overwrite their files. Every time we introduce a new user or group,
people scream because mm didn't magically fix things for them.
One solution I've considered in the past is to have a pre-world mm
option to do just master.passwd and group for just this purpose. One of
the reasons I liked /etc/defaults/make.conf was because this pre-world
script I have also compared my /etc/make.conf to the defaults to make
sure that the options I have in there are still doing what I think they
are doing. I'd kind of like to see this sort of thing return... it was
nice to have a somewhat canonical list of options available.
Doug
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