On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:10:18PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Nevermind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> : Hello, Crist J. Clark!
> :
> : On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:22:52PM -0800, you wrote:
> :
> : > > mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
> : > > mtree: line 63: unknown user smmsp
> : > > *** Error code 1
> : > >
> : > > ====
> : > >
> : > > what is wrong here?
> : >
> : > You don't have a user smmsp in your passwd(5) database. Update your
> : > master.passwd(5) and group(5) files and try again.
> : Shouldn't it be done by mergemaster? I think that build/install should
> : not depend on this kind of things, or there should be note in handbook
> : (&& | ||) UPDATING that mergemaster should be run _before_ installworld.
>
> Actually, generally speaking, mergemaster should be done after the
> installworld. However, this issue does raise an interesting point
> that sometimes the account merge part of it does need to be run
> before.
This is what the '-p' option was added for. A "pre-buildworld" run.
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