auditdistd (again)

[Bryan Drewery]

On 1/2/2013 12:10 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> My recent upgrading experience led to the installkernel portion of 'make
> kernel' failing on the lack of an auditdistd user, for which
> 'mergemaster -p' was ample workaround.  However, the instructions for
> "to rebuild everything" in UPDATING still have 'mergemaster -p' before
> installworld and after kernel/installkernel.

This is also documented in misc/174405

> 
> There is a bug here, but it could be either a documentation bug (fix
> UPDATING) or a code bug (only check UID/GIDs before installworld and not
> installkernel, which only ever uses root:wheel).
> 
> Unfortunately, testing code for the latter is somewhat time-consuming.
> 
> Pawel mentioned on #bsddev that he had an untested patch for the latter.
> Is there interest in testing that and getting it in the tree?  (Or would
> people prefer to just change UPDATING?)
> 


-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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