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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: Annoying mtree messages..
Cc: bde@freebsd.org
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>mtree -deU -f /a/src-current/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /usr
>local:  user (3, 0, modified)
>        gid (7, 0, modified)
>...
>missing: ./src (not created: File exists)
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>These spew out intermixed with the creations and valid permission
>adjustments and make them hard to see.  I would like to propose that
>we make nuke all the "(not blah: File exists)" messages from mtree
>...

>Any objections?

I object.  The underlined message is caused by 2 bugs.  First, your
./src is a symlink but it should be a directory.  Second, mtree doesn't
fully understand symlinks, so it doesn't check the tree under ./src and
it prints a stupid error message.

The 2 lines of messages about `local' is caused by a bug in the database.
/usr/local should probably be specified as being owned by root.wheel in
both BSD.usr.dist and BSD.local.dist.

Bruce