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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:33:23 -0700
From:      Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@firepipe.net>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@FreeBSD.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r336526 - head
Message-ID:  <4BC0DA67-495D-4029-A9CA-18407A1B9746@panasas.com>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Will Andrews <will@firepipe.net>
Date: 2018-07-28, Saturday at 18:44
To: Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>
Cc: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@FreeBSD.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r336526 - head

> Hi Ravi,
> Thanks for taking an initial stab, I applied your patch and quickly realized the problem is deeper than it looks.  This is because installworld and the second stage of mergemaster/etcupdate require the "pre" phase to take effect in their view of the system (specifically, the "ntpd" user must exist from their /etc/passwd, etc).  For traditional upgrades, this occurs by simply rebooting.
> 
> I've committed a revised version of your original patch, and have upgraded across this barrier using beinstall.  Please give it a try and let me know how it goes.
> 
> Thanks!
> --Will.

It worked! Thanks so much for following up on this, Will! :-)

-Ravi (rpokala@)

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org> wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>
Date: 2018-07-20, Friday at 10:53
To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, <src-committers@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r336526 - head

> -----Original Message-----
> From: <owner-src-committers@freebsd.org> on behalf of Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
> Date: 2018-07-20, Friday at 10:38
> To: Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>, <src-committers@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: svn commit: r336526 - head
> 
>> On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 09:56 -0700, Ravi Pokala wrote:
>>> Hi Ian,
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: <owner-src-committers@freebsd.org> on behalf of Ian Lepore 
>>> Date: 2018-07-19, Thursday at 17:44
>>> To: <src-committers@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> -- Ian
> 
> Interesting. I was attempting the install via the `beinstall.sh' script. CCing will@, since he wrote it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ravi (rpokala@)



After some discussion on IRC, I created this patch to fix `beinstall.sh'.

    https://people.freebsd.org/~rpokala/beinstall.patch

However, I'm a bit afraid of testing it, until someone who actually knows `etcupdate' and `mergemaster' can confirm that it won't blow up my box. :-)

Can anyone take a look and assuage my fears?

Thanks,

Ravi (rpokala@)












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