Date: 21 Aug 2004 11:15:57 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the handbook on buildworld accurate? Message-ID: <44brh4a5ea.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040820162649.GA908@0lsen.net> References: <20040820162649.GA908@0lsen.net>
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Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> writes: > The instructions in the handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > say to run 'make installworld' after running 'mergemaster -p'. I have > successfully (to my knowledge) run mergemaster, and the master password > file in /usr/src does have the 'proxy' user. However, installworld fails > because user 'proxy' is non-existent. The manpage for mergemaster says > that -p is a pre-buildworld switch, but that's not what the handbook says > to do. > > What am I missing? It sounds like you didn't run mergemaster successfully. I'm sure there's no 'proxy' user in your *real* password file.
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