svn commit: r336526 - head

[Ravi Pokala]

-----Original Message-----
From: <owner-src-committers at freebsd.org> on behalf of Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org>
Date: 2018-07-20, Friday at 10:38
To: Ravi Pokala <rpokala at freebsd.org>, <src-committers at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r336526 - head

> 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

Interesting. I was attempting the install via the `beinstall.sh' script. CCing will@, since he wrote it.

Thanks,

Ravi (rpokala@)