Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:04:26 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Redd Vinylene" <reddvinylene@gmail.com> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can't make world without the "games" group? Message-ID: <87wsi3q0lh.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <87abezx5yr.fsf@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:26:36 %2B0300") References: <f1019d520808010831s39c803fan9a35fcd17f010fc5@mail.gmail.com> <87abf487wg.fsf@kobe.laptop> <f1019d520808260201o27009529v43aa7ae8c35d7304@mail.gmail.com> <87abezx5yr.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:26:36 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote: > # Removing <advocacy@freebsd.org> from the recipient list. This isn't > # really a thread about marketing or promoting FreeBSD, so it's a bit > # off-topic for that list. > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:01:03 +0200, "Redd Vinylene" <reddvinylene@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Have you tried building with an src.conf file that includes: >>> >>> WITHOUT_GAMES='yes' >>> >>> It' not a matter of `kindergarten or not', but a matter of providing a >>> predictable `base system' by default and all the knob and documentation >>> to customize it at will. That's why you can find a lot of customization >>> options in the manpage of src.conf(5). >> >> Hello hello! >> Yeah I actually tried that, but I got the same error. > > Ok, this may be a bug in the makefiles then. My apologies if you have > already written all that. I caught the email thread some time after it > started, and I replied while being offline on a trip. Hi Redd, You are right I think. I just reproduced this a few minutes ago, by deleting the `games' group and user from my password file and installing a userland compiled with WITHOUT_GAMES=yes. Apparently, you can *build* everything when `WITHOUT_GAMES=yes', but when I tried to installworld the resulting distribution, the initial steps of the installation fail with: % -------------------------------------------------------------- % >>> Making hierarchy % -------------------------------------------------------------- % cd /home/build/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 hierarchy % cd /home/build/src/etc; make distrib-dirs % mtree -eU -f /home/build/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p / % mtree -eU -f /home/build/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var % mtree: line 48: unknown group games % *** Error code 1 % % Stop in /home/build/src/etc. % *** Error code 1 % % Stop in /home/build/src. % *** Error code 1 % % Stop in /home/build/src. % *** Error code 1 % % Stop in /home/build/src. % *** Error code 1 % % Stop in /home/build/src. % root@kobe:/home/build/src# That's because src/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist and BSD.var.dist include references to the `games' user and group. I'll try to split the relevant bits in a new `BSD.games.dist' file which will be conditionally passed to mtree(8) depending on WITHOUT_GAMES. Is this the same error as the one you are seeing? When I prepare a patch for this, would you be willing to test it for me? - Giorgos
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