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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: Andre Chang <wkchang@nyct.net> Subject: Re: 2-2-1 to 2-2-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate To: Martin Kammerhofer <dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <EApyuv.7zB@nonexistent.com> References: <EApHs0.Kw@nonexistent.com> <5m7ukr$775@fstgal00.tu-graz.ac.at> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 864534196 9864 (None) [207.198.184.232] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: wkchang.nyct.net Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 04:21:45 GMT Lines: 37 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41574 Martin Kammerhofer wrote: > > Andre Chang (wkchang@nyct.net) wrote: > : Hi, > : After installing 2-2-1 I CVSup'ed RELING_2_2, I then recompiled the > : kernel (dont know if this is nessessary). when trying to run make world > : in /usr/src, I get the error: > : > : mtree: -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var > : > : mtree: unknown group mail > > I had the same problem. After looking into /usr/src/etc/group and adding > the mail-group line from there to /etc/group make world succeeded. > > Note though that quite a few things in /etc changed, most notably > /etc/sysconfig is replaced by /etc/rc.conf (this is also mentioned by > 2.2.2's release notes). > If you are familiar with cvs you might want to put /etc under cvs control > and let cvs do most of the update/merge work in /etc for you. If you > use cvs's vendor-branch and appropriate .cvsignore files it's not to much > work. > In case you are not familiar with cvs I recommend backing up /etc and > comparing and merging manually. Refer to /usr/src/etc or take the /etc-stuff > from the bindist tarballs. > > HTH, > Martin > -- > __________________________________________________________________________ > You know you have achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing > more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. > - Antoine de Saint Exupery. Tanks for the help and the info, My machine is currently in the make world process and everything seems to be going well. Andre.