From owner-svn-src-head@freebsd.org Fri Jul 20 19:32:53 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8FB10505FB; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:32:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lwhsu@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [96.47.72.132]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "freefall.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A42C18A7FA; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:32:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lwhsu@freebsd.org) Received: by freefall.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1129) id 9C6CB15FEA; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:32:52 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:32:52 +0000 From: Li-Wen Hsu To: Mark Johnston Cc: Ian Lepore , Ravi Pokala , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r336526 - head Message-ID: <20180720193252.GA8863@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201807200044.w6K0i4QQ079894@repo.freebsd.org> <1532108303.1344.57.camel@freebsd.org> <20180720184056.GB36161@raichu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20180720184056.GB36161@raichu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:32:53 -0000 On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 14:40:56 -0400, Mark Johnston wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:38:23AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 09:56 -0700, Ravi Pokala wrote: > > > Hi Ian, > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: on behalf of Ian Lepore > > > Date: 2018-07-19, Thursday at 17:44 > > > To: , , > > > Subject: svn commit: r336526 - head > > > > > > > > > > > Author: ian > > > > Date: Fri Jul 20 00:44:04 2018 > > > > New Revision: 336526 > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336526 > > > > > > > > Log: > > > >   Add ntpd to the list of users/groups to check before installing. > > > > > > > > Modified: > > > >   head/Makefile.inc1 > > > When trying to installworld: > > > > > >     ERROR: Required ntpd user is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING. > > > > > > But there is no UPDATING entry about this. (Also, shouldn't it be ${SRCTOP}/UPDATING?) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Ravi (rpokala@) > > > > I wondered about that too, when I accidentally stumbled across the > > CHECK_UIDS thing and realized I should add ntpd to it. I searched in > > UPDATING for some of the other things in the CHECK_UIDS list to see > > what had been said about such changes in the past, even searching > > through old-old svn history, and found nothing. > > > > I finally settled on the thought that the reference to UPDATING was to > > the stuff at the bottom that never changes. In particular to the > > section around line 1595 that documents the instalkernel, reboot, > > mergemaster, installworld sequence. The mergemaster part should take > > care of the new userid, I guess. > > I thought it would too, but it's bombing out for me: > > *** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot > *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use > *** Creating and populating directory structure in /var/tmp/temproot > > mtree: unknown user `ntpd' > mtree: failed at line 49 of the specification > > *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /home/mark/src/freebsd-dev and install files to > the temproot environment > > I see that line 49 of BSD.var.dist references the new uids, so I guess > there's a chicken and egg problem here? I thought we should use mergemaster or etcupdate with -p for "pre-world" mode. Li-Wen -- Li-Wen Hsu https://lwhsu.org