ports/66439: portupgrade -R pilot-link-0.11.8_2 fails with latest cvsup

[Stacey Roberts]

Hello Adam,
      Don't get me wrong here Adam.., I'm *not* looking to get into an argument here on this..,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Weinberger <adamw at freebsd.org>"
To: To Stacey Roberts
Date: Tue, 11 May, 2004 00:17 BST
Subject: Re: ports/66439: portupgrade -R pilot-link-0.11.8_2 fails with latest cvsup

> I clearly remember spending over a week going through this exact problem
> with you months and months ago.
> 
> After about 10 thousand emails from me saying the same thing over and
> over, you admitted that you may have been creating users with
> /nonexistent as their $HOME because that's what you saw listed in stuff
> for ports.
> 
> Ports didn't create that directory.
> 
> You did.
> 

Checking the thread that Mezz kindly posted.., I said that the /nonexistent dir was created when I created machine accounts for samba which is running on that machine.., 

However, on *every* other FreeBSD machine here including workstations, /nonexistent is listed in /etc/passwd as the home dir for gdm, nobody, www and pop. What am I supposed to do for those accounts?

I'm not having a dig at you or anyone else here, but if this is your way of telling me to go away with my problems, then fair enough. I'd even withdraw the PR (if possible) if that would make you feel any better.., 


Regards,

Stacey

> The behaviour of the ports is exactly as it should be. It's kindof
> ridiculous to create a directory named /nonexistent, when the name
> clearly implies that it shouldn't exist.
> 

> # Adam
> 
> 
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