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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:17:14 -0200 (EDT)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
To:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Uh oh...
Message-ID:  <199812021617.OAA22144@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <7532.912603056@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 2, 98 04:50:56 am"

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// > `make world' is not permitted to change /etc.  Especially not
// > /etc/master.passwd when installing to DESTDIR=/mnt/root.
// 
// Normally I'd agree, but...  Your counter-suggestion?

Check the existence of every user and group needed for the system, at
the very beggining of the make world, and stop the compilation if they
are not present.  This should be done the earliest possible, and must
show every needed user, including the probably obvious ones.

BTW: Are there any rules about user and group id selection ?  Say,
0-99 are reserved to the system, etc.

					Jonny

--
Joao Carlos Mendes Luis            M.Sc. Student
jonny@jonny.eng.br                 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
"This .sig is not meant to be politically correct."

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