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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2002 01:44:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.org>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.org>, <stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: smmsp user
Message-ID:  <20020418014245.F8259-100000@master.gorean.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020418072619.GE98788@sunbay.com>

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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> We can easily add a glue to the etc/Makefile's distrib-dirs target so that
> it pre-checks that these users exist, and if they don't, suggests manually
> updating the passwd database or using the mergemaster(8)'s -p option.  The
> last one could be tricky if the installed mergemaster(8) does not have it.

	Believe it or not, I've been considering a feature to mm to check
whether or not it is the latest version, and offer to upgrade itself if
not. It'd be handy for bootstrapping situations like this, and also for
RELENG_4 -> HEAD upgrades.

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