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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:59:23 +0200
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        Eirik Oeverby <ltning@anduin.net>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject:   Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE
Message-ID:  <200407142359.27024.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <40F58BE7.9050601@anduin.net>
References:  <25787.1089753241@critter.freebsd.dk> <p0611041cbd1b14c0592a@[128.113.24.47]> <40F58BE7.9050601@anduin.net>

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On Wednesday 14 July 2004 21:39, Eirik Oeverby wrote:
> >  So far, we have never *needed* `mergemaster -p'
> > before buildworld, and I think it is confusing to tell users it
> > should be done then.
>
> This is NOT true. Recently mergemaster -p insisted that I add certain
> users and groups to my passwd/group files, to support pf. Without that,
> I bet installworld would have gone down in flames ..

Correct, but (like the entry in UPDATING says also), running mergemaster -p=
=20
before _install_world is sufficient.

=2D-=20
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