svn commit: r336526 - head

[Ian Lepore]

On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 09:56 -0700, Ravi Pokala wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <owner-src-committers at freebsd.org> on behalf of Ian Lepore 
> Date: 2018-07-19, Thursday at 17:44
> To: <src-committers at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all at 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.

-- Ian