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

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 01:12:24 +0100, Stacey Roberts 
<stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:

> 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 am not sure if you understand. /nonexistent is supposed to be meant 'not 
exist', get it? It won't hurt your /etc/passwd that has the /nonexistent, 
they will understand that it is not exist. If I don't explain that well, 
so others w/ skilled English grammar might/will explain more.

Cheers,
Mezz

> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adam Weinberger
>> adamw at magnesium.net || adamw at FreeBSD.org
>> adamw at vectors.cx    ||   adamw at gnome.org
>> http://www.vectors.cx


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