From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 23 23:27:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E0D37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:27:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from DougBarton.net (12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com [12.234.22.238]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDD38B5AE; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:27:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C7895E9.A79E91CA@DougBarton.net> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:27:37 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: David Wolfskill , current@FreeBSD.ORG, ggombert@imatowns.com Subject: Re: Install World fails in -Current References: <200202221338.g1MDceE75453@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > David Wolfskill 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 -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message