Fwd: DragonFly ISO release build failure

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai asmodai at wxs.nl
Thu Sep 23 01:27:01 PDT 2004


-On [20040923 10:12], Matthew Dillon (dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>    Maybe we should have a preupgrade target to go along with the upgrade
>    target.  installworld would run the preupgrade target to ensure that
>    all requires users, groups, and other related junk is in place.

Ahh, but there lies the crux doesn't it?

This was one of those things mergemaster was supposed to handle since a user
might very well (buddha forbid) have used those same uids or gids.  And we
don't want to overwrite that.

Not saying it cannot be scripted or whatever, but it will be a fun one!

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