Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:39:05 -0400 From: Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> To: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org> Cc: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r336526 - head Message-ID: <20180720193905.GA19337@raichu> In-Reply-To: <20180720193252.GA8863@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201807200044.w6K0i4QQ079894@repo.freebsd.org> <FB81978A-C563-48E8-B259-A607126A7301@panasas.com> <1532108303.1344.57.camel@freebsd.org> <20180720184056.GB36161@raichu> <20180720193252.GA8863@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 07:32:52PM +0000, Li-Wen Hsu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 14:40:56 -0400, Mark Johnston wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:38:23AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 09:56 -0700, Ravi Pokala wrote: > > > > Hi Ian, > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: <owner-src-committers@freebsd.org> on behalf of Ian Lepore > > > > Date: 2018-07-19, Thursday at 17:44 > > > > To: <src-committers@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, > > > > Subject: svn commit: r336526 - head > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Author: ian > > > > > Date: Fri Jul 20 00:44:04 2018 > > > > > New Revision: 336526 > > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336526 > > > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > > Add ntpd to the list of users/groups to check before installing. > > > > > > > > > > Modified: > > > > > head/Makefile.inc1 > > > > When trying to installworld: > > > > > > > > ERROR: Required ntpd user is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING. > > > > > > > > But there is no UPDATING entry about this. (Also, shouldn't it be ${SRCTOP}/UPDATING?) > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Ravi (rpokala@) > > > > > > I wondered about that too, when I accidentally stumbled across the > > > CHECK_UIDS thing and realized I should add ntpd to it. I searched in > > > UPDATING for some of the other things in the CHECK_UIDS list to see > > > what had been said about such changes in the past, even searching > > > through old-old svn history, and found nothing. > > > > > > I finally settled on the thought that the reference to UPDATING was to > > > the stuff at the bottom that never changes. In particular to the > > > section around line 1595 that documents the instalkernel, reboot, > > > mergemaster, installworld sequence. The mergemaster part should take > > > care of the new userid, I guess. > > > > I thought it would too, but it's bombing out for me: > > > > *** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot > > *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use > > *** Creating and populating directory structure in /var/tmp/temproot > > > > mtree: unknown user `ntpd' > > mtree: failed at line 49 of the specification > > > > *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /home/mark/src/freebsd-dev and install files to > > the temproot environment > > > > I see that line 49 of BSD.var.dist references the new uids, so I guess > > there's a chicken and egg problem here? > > I thought we should use mergemaster or etcupdate with -p for "pre-world" > mode. Oops, I'd forgotten about that flag. That fixes it for me, thanks.
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