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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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