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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:44:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Uh oh...
Message-ID:  <199812021544.KAA20290@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6721.912594438@zippy.cdrom.com>
References:  <6721.912594438@zippy.cdrom.com>

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<<On Wed, 02 Dec 1998 02:27:18 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> said:

> I think we've created a slight bootstrapping problem here.  "make
> world" is still the official method of upgrading a system via sources
> and it's supposed to handle all bootstrapping issues like this
> automagically.

It has never in the past handled creating new users or groups.
Witness the `network' group, the `xten' user, the `uucp' user, the `man'
group, and the `dialer' group.

-GAWollman

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