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From: dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Martin Kammerhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2-2-1 to 2-2-stable
Date: 24 May 1997 23:46:35 GMT
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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
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